What exactly is in thisform.text1.value? You may need to TRIM() it if it's as long as upldp you may be losing the existing value off the right end.

>Just having a small problem with syntax ... I have a form that sllows the user to select a drive letter/directory and want to replace the value in the field with this drive letter + what value was previously
>in the field, when I use the following code the field is replaced with the new drive letter only. I want to replace the first three characters in the field only. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
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>direct = ""
>direct = thisform.text1.value
>direct = getdir("\wincats\sys.dbf\, ", "Directory")
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>replace upldp with thisform.text1.value + right(allt(upldp),; len(allt(upldp)) - 3)