FILE() Function With Long FIle Names

[Shanachie]

I have a need to be able to use FILE() with long file names (quite long, actually, some are 40 chars). It appears only to recognize the first 8 chars. Interestingly, RENAME TO will rename a file to a long name but then FILE() doesn't see the difference between:

C:\Temp\Customer1-PO12345-20020207A.TXT

and

C:\Temp\Customer1-PO12345-20020207B.TXT

Note version "A" versus version "B".

Any solutions? Short of short names?

The legacy of DOS lives on.

Shanachie

 

[chpicker]

Odd. I created the file "C:\Temp\Customer1-PO12345-20020207A.TXT" on my hard drive, and issued the following two commands. Here are the results of them on my system:

?file("C:\Temp\Customer1-PO12345-20020207B.TXT")
.F.
?file("C:\Temp\Customer1-PO12345-20020207A.TXT")
.T.

What version and service pack of VFP are you using? And what OS? The above worked on a Win2k system (SP1) running VFP6 with SP5.

 

[Shanachie]

Oops! My mistake! I was testing for the wrong filename! The FILE() test referred to a (wrong) variable containing a file name that did exist.

My error; code now works perfectly. Sorry to have bothered you with such a dumb error.

Shanachie