Hi Terry,

many of the old foxtools.fll functions, most of which now are built into VFP, can be used for many other things than they really are intended for, because most of them in reality are nothing but string handling functions. One good example that comes to my mind, is the easiest way to get the decimal value of a numeric value in a string.

cText='123.456'
JUSTEXT(cText) = '456' 
And of course
JUSTSTEM(cText)= '123'

>Tore
>
>I wouldn't have thought of that because JUSTSTEM should, according to Help, work with a File Name (expecting an extension and not "\"). So is this undocumented extended use of a function?
>
>Terry
>
>>Easiest solution

JUSTSTEM(JUSTPATH(cdir))

>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I have cdir = "c:\Myapp\mydata\Bo\" and i want "bo".
>>>
>>>How can i do it ?
>>>
>>>thank in advance
>>>
>>>Bernhart