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I'm trying to get the description from a series into a string, and unfortunately having a difficult time doing so. Essentially, I'd like to get the series description and store it as a string so I can then use it to label a chart. (Where the description is what you can see if you open a series then View->Label and it's the fourth element down in that table.) I can find how to set this, but can't seem to find how to pull it out and use it.

I'd also be happy if I could pull a Haver description directly from the database into a string.

Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks.

You can freeze the label view of the series into a table, then extract the string from that table.

Got it, thanks. That worked.

For anyone else who might be trying here is the code that I used:

if @isobject("tempfreeze") then
delete tempfreeze
endif
freeze(tempfreeze) {%stubSeriesName}.label
%description = tempfreeze(6,2)