Just enclose it in the parenthesis to tell VFP that it's name expression
USE (gcMainDbf+tcChildTable) IN 0
>I've faced that situations at few occasions and was wondering what you think.
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>Lets say I have a data path and a file name variables. So, to open that file, I would then use:
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>USE gcMainDbf+''+tcChildTable IN 0
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>as if I use:
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>USE gcMainDbf+tcChildTable IN 0
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>that won't work.
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>I personally never used a file name that contains a +. Is that possible? If not, then, this should be calculated and not searched as is for a file that matches that entire string.
--sb--