Question

I have a paradox table from a legacy system I need to run a single query on. The field names have spaces in them – i.e. ‘Street 1’. When I try and formulate a query in delphi for only the ‘Street 1’ field, I get an error – Invalid use of keyword. Token: 1, Line Number: 1

Delphi V7 – object pascal, standard Tquery object name query1.

Answer 1

You need to prefix the string with the table name in the query.

For example: field name is ‘Street 1’, table is called customers the select is:

SELECT customers.'Street 1' FROM customers WHERE ...