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Check to see if a table exists without knowing its locat
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04/05/2005 15:16:10
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2000 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01010987
Message ID:
01011000
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23
This message has been marked as the solution to the initial question of the thread.
Something like this:

open database ...
?FILE(DBGETPROP(table_name,"TABLE","PATH"))

>If I have a database: dbWorkFiles
>
>and I want to determine if one of its tables physically exist I would typically store a common path to the data directory to a variable like 'ddir' and then do:
>
>IF FILE (ddir+'mytable.dbf')
>
>However, if I do not know exactly where the tables are located - lets say I open them with:
>
>use dbWorkFiles!mytable
>
>then how can I check to see if the table exists or not if I do not know where they are located? Is that possible? It could be a part of the database but not physically exist...
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