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How to get the DBF name
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09/05/2001 10:45:36
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00505043
Message ID:
00505295
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>>>Path [C] The path to the table. Read-Only.
>>>
>>>In actuality, this returns exactly the DBF file name WITHOUT the path to the file. Go figure. Thanks.
>>
>>You're welcome.
>>
>>Actually, just like the Classloc field in a VCX, it's the path relative to the file, which means if the DBC and the DBF are in the same directory - which they probably are in 99.9% of apps that use DBCs - it will return just the file name.
>>If for some ungodly reason the table is on a different drive than the DBC, then it will return the full path. < shudder >
>
>The Help should read relative path and table name :-)

Yeah. There's a lot the help should say and doesn't. And does say and shouldn't. ;)
I've taken the approach (since 3.0) of "The help says this, let's see what really happens." <g>
Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
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