Al, thank you!

I had looked at

oGUID = CreateObject("scriptlet.typelib")
cGUID = substr( oGUID.GUID, 2, 36 )
? cGUID

but wanted a shorter key that I could also use as a filename.

dg

>You may want to look at GUIDs for this sort of thing: http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~GUIDGenerationCode~VFP
>
>>Thank you. I want to be able to order this key by chronology, so do I understand that
>>

SUBSTR(SYS(2015),2, 9)+TRANSFORM(_vfp.ProcessId)

>>would yield unique id's created on different machines at the precise same moment?
>>
>>dg
>>
>>
>>
>>>Adding ProcessId to should make the key unique
>>>

>>>transform(_vfp.ProcessId)+SYS(2015) 
>>>

>>>>I am creating a unique key with substr(SYS(2015),2, 9) as the value. Would it require that 2 users on 2 machines create the key at the same millisecond to get a duplicate, or even at the precise same moment would different machines render different values?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks.