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>Thanks for all the answer I received about my duplicate fields name problem.
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>I can see two solutions that might work.
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>The first is to use the SCATTER and GATHER TO MEMBER. But, I will prefer the second one which is to use the low level file functions to change the header of the table. Does anyone already done that? Any example?
I never done something like that. Maybe it help you to know that:
1. The first field name starts at position 33 in the dbf file;
2. The information for each field takes 32 bytes. So, the second field name starts at the position 65, ...;
3. Each field name has a maximum length of 10 bytes (this is the hotest tip of all! :)) If the length of the field name is less than 10, the other characters are chr(0). Anyway, the name is ended in chr(0).
Vlad
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