>I have a large number of DBF files and I want to find out if any of them contain a certain string.
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>The Search in Windows Explorer does NOT find it even if I open a dbf file and copy an exact string, then use Search utility to find that string, it still says NOT FOUND
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>I am not sure what field it will be in, but it will be a 10 digit number, but stored in a character field.
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>I could open each file and do Control F to find it, but I have several hundred dbf files to look through and numerous strings to look for.
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>Any suggestions????
How about some variant of

lnNumFiles = ADIR(aDBFS,"*.dbf")
FOR i = 1 TO lnNumFiles
     lcStr = FILETOSTR(aDBFS[i,1])
     IF myString $ lcStr
         *** Found it
     ENDIF
ENDFOR

You could also lop off the header portion of lcStr to make sure you are only searching the data section