>>Brenda, in addition to what George says you can use
>>IF ".DBF" $ UPPER(mystring)
>>***
>>ENDIF
>
>Nick,
>
>You could have a folder name with .dbf in it. ie 'c:\some.dbf.folder\data.txt' would return .T.
>
>hth

IF ".DBF" $ UPPER(RIGHT(ALLTRIM(mystring),4))
***
ENDIF