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Hi all,
I am new to Vensim and I am studiyng the syntax of vdo files.
In the docs it says:

:VARLIST
Output only. Indicates that the information that follows indicates the list of variables to be output to the database.
[...] or the information necessary to perform a select and fetch the variable list from the database.

How exactly do I specify the SELECT to fetch the variable list from a database? Is there an example? I tried several :SELECT VARIABLES but always get an error. I am trying to output variables to a database without having to specify the names of the variables in the vdo file.

Thanks for your help.
Davide Moraschi

The documentation is misleading there - though what is suggest is a sensible notion. Following a :VARLIST must be a list of variables to export, there is no query supported.