Good idea...thanks!

>Opening the table with a uniform alias won't work if you call the routine more than once with different tablenames. An alternative is to grab all current aliases with aused() and check the dbf() for a match. eg:
>
>=aused(laCurtables)
>for each cTableAlias in laCurtables
> if juststem(dbf(cTableAlias))=tablename && it's in use
> llused=.t.
> exit
> endif
>endfor
>if !llused
> use (tablename) again in 0
>endif
>
>
>>Doug's answer is correct, and also don't use the Extension (.DBF) in the USED() command; it is expecting just the Alias name. (I'm not sure from your question but it looked as if you may have been tacking on the "DBF" part...)
>>
>>-Irv.
>>
>>
>>>Hello everyone:
>>> If a table name is a varible ,How to judge it be used().
>>> For example:
>>>public theyear ,themonth, tablename
>>>theyear=''2002''
>>>themonth=''06''
>>>tablename=''''
>>>
>>>tablename=allt(theyear)+''Äê''+allt(themonth)+''ÔÂ''
>>>if not used(tablename)
>>>....
>>>endif
>>>
>>>In fact this code is failure ,Could you give me some advice?
>>>Thank you.