>I find string handling routines one of the most difficult things about the foxpro language syntax. I always go to the "ST" in the reference and find very little on functions/routines on strings. Does someone have a cheatsheat?
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>Anyway, I have a filename with a path and want to know if the file is an *.dbf. should not be difficult, but i have not been able to do it.
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>c:\something\somethingelse\data.dbf
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>thanks
>
>brenda

Brenda, in addition to what George says you can use
IF ".DBF" $ UPPER(mystring)
***
ENDIF

In fact there are too many string functions in VFP :)
They just do not all start with ST. :)
Just to name some:

AT()
ATC()
ATCC()
AT_C()
ATCLINE()
ATLINE()
LEFT()
LEFTC()
RIGHT()
RIGHTC()
SUBSTR()
SUBSTRC()
RAT()
RATC()
TRIM()
LTRIM()
RTRIM()
ALLTRIM()
STRTOFILE()
OCCURS()
FILETOSTR()
STRTRAN()
STUFF()
PADC()
PADL()
PADR()
TRANSFORM()
RATLINE()
UPPER()
LOWER()
...