>Hi,
>
>I've printed reports to text files for archival purposes in the past and for the life of me can't figure out why this isn't working:
>
>*****
>
>* tried this first - didn't work
>
>report form rec_summary to file ;
> "Balance:"+ DTOC(date())+".txt" ASCII
>
>*****
>*/////////////////////////////////////////
>*****
>
>* tried this next- didn't work
>
>local lddate, lcfilename
>
>select rsSystem
>lddate = rsSystem.proc_date
>
>lcfilename = 'Balance:'+ DTOC(lddate)+'.txt'
>
>report form rec_summary.frx to file (lcfilename) ASCII
>
>*****
>*/////////////////////////////////////////
>*****
>
>* tried this last - it worked!!
>
>report form rec_summary.frx to file test.txt ASCII
>
>*****
>
>The first two attempts did not create the text report file - nor did they throw me an error. The last attempt did work. Any idea why either of the first two didn't work?



THE '/' in the date function confuses the parser...
Use only filenames without '/' and you should not have a problem saving a variable type of filename...


lcFileName = "TestSample"
REPORT FORM MyReport.frx TO FILE (lcFileName) ASCII

this should work....