Variable in export ascii export ascii aaa= ?variable name ? ?x

[Dan Coutu]

Fairlight wrote:

>When asked his whereabouts on Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 02:04:01PM -0400,
>Dan Coutu took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
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>>The magical incantation requires the use of parentheses. As a general 
>>rule you can use parentheses around a variable almost anywhere. So do 
>>this instead:
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>>export ascii aaa = (MyVariable) -x
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>The exceptions are index names in lookup statements, and subscripts for
>a lookup [lr]value, are they not?  The syntax i=(zz) in a LOOKUP and
>lookupalias((aa)) [with or without extra parens] are both unusable,
>correct?  
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>I've often wished for the latter--I've never gotten it to work.  I was told
>it's not possible.  The former could also be very helpful in some situations.
>
>mark->
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Actually you can use the parentheses trick with index names in lookups. 
It works just fine for me with version 5.0.14D4.

I've never used lookupaliases though.

Dan