Getting Column Descriptions in Code

[Kenneth Brody]

On 10/3/2016 4:30 AM, Stanley - stanlyn.com via Filepro-list wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When defining a table we do.
> 1 First Name 20 uplow
> 2 Last Name 20 Uplow
> 3 Address     40 Uplow
>
> In code we reference the fields above by its field number.  What I want to
> do is get the column/field number's description in code.  Like aa=field1's
> description, therefore for row 1 above aa would equal "First Name" and NOT
> the stored user data of "John Smith".  Instead I need the column's
> description/name.  This is column specific and NOT row specific.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> I'm using fp 5.0.14

Sounds like you want FIELDNAME().

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Kenneth Brody