Pathing problems

[mikem1260]

VFP9 appears to have an issue with folder names containing spaces, e.g. c:\documents\Visual FoxPro Projects. I'm getting invalid path or file name errors whenever I try to access a file in folders like the one above using getfile().

Ideas, anyone?
TIA,

Mike

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[Mike Lewis]

Mike,

Place the file path and name in quotes.

Mike


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[Dan Freeman]

VFP doesn't have any problem with spaces in path/file names. It does have trouble parsing commands when it sees them which is where Mike's suggestion comes in.

Consider this:

Use C:\My Favorites\my.dbf Exclusive

Is "Exclusive" the 3rd or 4th clause in that command? How should VFP guess?

Since you mentioned Getfile(), I'm guessing a &macro expansion is involved? I'm also guessing a name expression might serve you better:

lcFile=Getfile()
Use (lcFile)