So there's your answer - an alias cannot start with a number. VFP will give some other alis to the file, as Hilmar said.

cheers

>Hi Hilmar
>
>.lchave contains this string '001facf000052'
>
>:rs2cursor
>

>LPARAMETERS oRs, cAlias
>
>	LOCAL loCursor, lcCursor, lcAlias
>	Try
>		lcCursor = Sys(2015)
>		loCursor = CREATEOBJECT("CursorAdapter")
>                lcAlias=IIF( Type('cAlias') = 'C', cAlias, Sys(2015) )
>.....
>	Catch
>	Finally
>		loCursor = null
>		loRs=null
>	EndTry
>
>Return Iif( Used(lcAlias), 1, -1 )
>

>
>Joao Batista