>I'm using VFP 6.0 under Nt4

>when i use substr(sys(2015), 3, 10). Sometimes i receive a numeric for the first character. Is it possible ???

>Can anyone help with this?

>Thanks,

>Alain

tempfilename = left(sys(2015), 8) + '.dbf'
** returns an 8 pos string starting with an underscore
if file (tempfilename)
tempfilename = left(sys(2015), 8) + '.dbf'
endif
** since 8 character is not guaranteed unique, ask if already a file and keep
** trying until it is not a file.

brenda