>>>>>>>How so, amd why not suggest an alternative? It's just a cheap & cheerful way of generating a (fairly) unigue file name.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>

>>>>>>lcDateStr = ttoc(datetime(), 1)
>>>>>>

>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks Gregory. Then it needs converting to a format readable to a British eye/brain, with "_" separators, etc. It's not that important :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>Terry
>>>>
>>>>Terry,
>>>>
>>>>That's easy
>>>>

>>>>?transform(ttoc(datetime(),1), '@R ####_##_##_##:##:##')
>>>>?transform(ttoc(datetime(),1), '@R ####-##-##_##:##:##')
>>>>

>>>
>>>Aye, but it still goes to reverse order (indexing) date - I'd want it in Brit format, like "21_09_2006_1136"
>>>
>>>See? It's still a faff :-)
>>

>>?strtran(ttoc(datetime()), '/', '_')
>>

>
>I guess that would work, except that I'm a bit chary of using ":" and spaces in a filename, a hang-up to the old DOS days, I guess. You never know when a certain package won't recognise the chars in the filename as legal,


Then put it through another strtran()

?strtran(strtran(ttoc(datetime()), '/', '_'), ':', '_')

Chrtran() is also possible


>At least it's DEFINITELY precise about when the file was created, heh ?-)
>
>Thanks
>
>Terry