>>>>This is weird. I am using PUTFILE() as below, tname is about 30 characters but somehow I am only getting the last 6 characters as the name to save as. so instead of getting "data in tName column" I am getting "column".
>>>>Now, I am using the same code somewhere else and it is working as expected.
>>>>
>>>>Any idea??
>>>>
>>>>cFileName = PUTFILE('CSR:',ALLTRIM(table1.tname)+".csr",'csr')
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>>I tried with extension, without extension. created variable to hold the name, used LEFT() with LEN(). I mean anything I can think of and still not working on this one. then work perfect on another screen...
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>Try with m.cFileName - you may be sitting on an alias where you have a cFileName field which is c(6). Or just rename the variable to lcFileName.

I just found out that I am omitting one important information. The column data ends with date (i.e. 02/05/2009) and PUTFILE() stopping at 2009. what's weird it start from the right side. when I deleted the date part, it worked fine.
test it.
I did not find any documentation about this behavior.

Any solution other than STRTRAN()