>Hi All,
> I am blind today. I have the following in code and get the error "Field name is a duplicate or invalid" when it hits the create table line. lcFilename is a valid path and new table name, no table by that name in the directory.
>

>  lcFilename = gPrintTables + "trnsct3.dbf"
>  ...
>  CREATE TABLE (lcFilename) FREE ( contract_id C(12), service_id C(12), ;
>     sub_id C(3), startdate D(8), enddate D(8) )
>

>
>Can someone tell me, please, what I am missing? It looks the same as four other lines I have in other progs.

"contract_id" is 11 characters, longer than limit of 10 for free tables.

Another useful tip is to not include lengths for field types such as Date, Datetime, Integer etc. which have only one possible length e.g. use

... startdate D, enddate D ...

This avoids any chance of errors caused by typing in the wrong size, mismatching parentheses etc.