>I am sure this is simple and may have something to do with macro substitution but I can't figure it...
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>I normally open databases like this...
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>open database myDataBase exclusive
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>But say I use a getfile command to get the path and name of the database? I guess I would have to strip out the database name from the path so I would have two variables... strPath and strDBC
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>My question is how do I open the database when I have it's name in a variable
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>open database (strDBC) exclusive
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>This doesn't work for obvious reasons...
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>Thanks

Use name resolution. BTW, you don't have to strip path from the name of database.