Well Gorblimey, Nick. I never even knew I had that. I remembered the old filer from 2.6 days but I've never needed/come across this in 7. Just what I needed.

Thanks, also to Jason

Terry

>Terry it should be in 7
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>look in the help for filer
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>try DO FORM (HOME(1) + 'Tools\Filer\Filer.scx')
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>Nick
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>>Thanks Jason
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>>For the simple reason that I'm still on V7. Evevn if I were to order 9 today, it's today (now) I want to do the searching.
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>>Cheers
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>>Terry
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>>>Terry
>>>
>>>Why don't you use filer in VFP9?
>>>I use that whenever I need to find a text string.
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>>>Regards
>>>
>>>Jason
>>>
>>>>I've go a dilemma in that looking at some old rubbish code (FPD26), tables are continually opened in specified work areas and closed. Now there's a table that I need to ensure I keep open throughout the app. I do:
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>>>>Select 0
>>>>Use DefDirs
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>>>>But 0 returns 1, as this is the first table oppened. Within a heartbeat there is code to:
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>>>>Select 1
>>>>Use Whatever
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>>>>and this happens (1 used) throughout this sorry suite of code.
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>>>>So it looks like my only recourse is to open DefDirs in a numbered area that won't get re-used.
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>>>>Now AFAIK you can only use 25 work areas in FPD26. I was thinking of opening DefDirs in 25. But I need to check through this labyrynth of progs to check that 25 (or whatever) isn't used somewhere else (for the same lame reason).
>>>>
>>>>Anyone know of a readily-available tool that can search a bunch of files for a specific string?
>>>>
>>>>'ppreciate it
>>>>
>>>>Terry