>I think you're right about that. Apparently, with the parenthesis, it doesn't need any whitespace.

This is interesting: I just did some experimenting, and the same goes for just quotes:

Select"myTable"

also works. Of course

Select(myTable)

doesn't work, because it expects myTable to be a variable.

But USE has an interesting quirk:

use c:\temp\temp

works fine.

use("c:\temp\temp")

works fine.

use"c:\temp\temp"

works fine.

here's where it gets interesting:

use(c:\temp\temp)

doesn't work. Actually I didn't expect it to, but it failed in a way that I didn't expect. With a straight tablename

use(temp)

of course it thinks temp is a variable, but with an full path it tries to open (in the current directory) a filename that includes the parenthesis and path!

< CurrentDirectory >\(c:\temp\temp).dbf