Michel,

You could assign an ALIAS name in the USE and use that in the SELECT.

But in fact I would caution AGAINST table names Starting with a numeric, mainly because of yet another problem you will hit - VFP will choose its OWN name for the alias *IF* you do not assign one because a numeric is *NOT* allowed as the first character of an alias.

Cheers,

Jim N

>One of our table is named with 81500018.dbf. How can we select it using a variable. Assuming lcTable='81500018' and the table is open, the following won't work:
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>SELECT(lcTable)
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>As the first character is a digit, Visual FoxPro will try to select the area number instead and not use the table name.