>>THere is a command to give me only the Extention of a file or just the name and not the extention of a file but I can't rememebr what it is. Anyone remember?
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>Like George "Knower of all things FoxTools" already pointed out, JustExt(). ForceExt() might also be something to keep tucked away in case you need it.

But these aren't in Foxtools any more.:-)

>In any case, there's always substr(lcF, rat('.', lcf) + 1), just one of the 4 billion string manipulations you could have done to get it.

Actually, the possible number is lower since we're limited to signed integers in VFP.< bg >