>Has anyone run into trouble while attempting to rename a file which has a leading space? I am receiving an error from Visual FoxPro that the file does not exist. I tried:
>
> lcPath = sys(5) + curdir()
> gnCount = adir(gaTifs, '*.tif')
> for nCounter = 1 to gnCount
> cOldName = lcPath + gaTifs(nCounter,1)
> cNewName = lcPath + substr(gaTifs(nCounter,1)3,6)
> rename &cOldName to &cNewName

Using macro-expansion unnecessarily has consequences; use name expansion instead where possible. This is likely to work:

RENAME (cOldName) TO (cNewName)

> endfor
>
>If we manually take out the leading spaces it works... Otherwise we get the file does not exist error.
>
>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Maria