Subject Re: Getting Just the File Name from Getfile() From <rich@autotraker.com> <<rich@autotraker.com>> Date Wed, 23 May 2018 07:14:43 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started You got a few good answers. However they should have embraced the new string methods rather than using rat() f  = GETFILE("*Z*.xml","Select a File",.T.,"XML Files (*.xml)") ? f.right(f.length-f.lastIndexOf("\")-1) "Louis James"  wrote in message news:Dg0dwyj8THA.1832@ip-AC1E04A7... Firstly assume that I am in the folder F:\Data\2018\03-2018 if I use getfile(), in the following example:      f  = GETFILE("*Z*.xml","Select a File",.T.,"XML Files (*.xml)") I will get on the return something like: f = F:\Data\2018\03-2018\04-23-2018 The Long FileName.xml What I am interested in is JUST the filename without the path.  In this example: 04-23-2018 The LongFileName.xml How do I strip out the path and just get the filename.  Thank you for helping. Louis