>HI,
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>I have this project which contains a number of forms.
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>One of the forms displays a ListBox that contains filenames and a command button.
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>The user selects a filename from the ListBox and then clicks the command button to continue.
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>What happens is that the filename selected is stored to a variable and then the APPEND FROM command is used to append the data from the textfile to a table.
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>Problem is that the command below generates an error as the filename does not have an extension.
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>APPEND FROM (lcFileName) TYPE SDF
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>The error returned is "Cannot find c:\import\FIRE-050.txt"
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>Can anyone help?
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>thanks,
>
>Jason Lawrie

If it doesn't have an extension then add dot to signify it :

Append From (lcFileName+'.') type sdf

Or in listbox filename is represented with a dot at end.
Cetin