Hi Neil,

addbs(justpath("C:\pictures\dress.jpg"))

HTH

Jon

>I have a small program that is invoked by pressing on a button on my form. For each record in my database there is a picture with a path as to where the picture is stored. what I would like to do is store the path minus the filename to a variable. For example:
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>C:\pictures\dress.jpg
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>I would like to store 'C:\pictures\'
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>If the file was called:
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>C:\mainfile\sketches\pics\10034.png
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>Then I would like to store to the variable: C:\mainfile\sketches\pics\
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>Basically I do not want the file name. How can i do this programmtically?
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>AMny thanks