Hi kids!

I'm trying to figure out how to decipher table header bytes 4-7 (which according to the VFP help file) contains the number of records in the table file.

Here's some data points:

records      byte 4  5  6  7 
-----------------------------
      3           6- 3- 0- 0
     40          22-40- 0- 0
     18          11-18- 0- 0
 217397          18-53-81- 3

Here's the code I used:

m.lcMyDBFFile = FILETOSTR("c:\whatever.dbf")

m.lcString = TRANSFORM(ASC(SUBSTR(m.lcMyDBFFile,4,1))) + '-' ;
				+ TRANSFORM(ASC(SUBSTR(m.lcMyDBFFile,5,1))) + '-' ;
				+ TRANSFORM(ASC(SUBSTR(m.lcMyDBFFile,6,1))) + '-' ;
				+ TRANSFORM(ASC(SUBSTR(m.lcMyDBFFile,7,1)))
_cliptext = m.lcString

Got any ideas??

Hugh