lcCommand = "RENAME (lcFrom) TO (lcTo)"

WAIT WINDOW lcCommand  && anything wrong?

&lcCommand

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Jeff Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Doesn't work Ted.
>
> What the heck is going on here? I have been doing RENAMING for years. The
> paths are valid.
>
>
> On 8/19/2015 6:29 AM, Ted Roche wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Jeff Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>          RENAME LOWER(lcimportpath + UPPER(lcimage)) TO lcexportpath +
>>> UPPER(ALLTRIM(doc_url))
>>> does not work.
>>
>> Change this to:
>> lcFrom = LOWER(lcimportpath + UPPER(lcimage))
>> lcTo = lcexportpath + UPPER(ALLTRIM(doc_url))
>> RENAME (lcFrom) TO (lcTo)
>>
>> If it works, let me know why ;)
>>
>>   I used the adir() method and it is finding the file, but
>>>
>>> there is something wrong with this command.
>>> It looks okay to me.
>>> This is one of those FoxPro things that hangs me up. I could probably
>>> spend
>>> days figuring this out and it is usually something I am missing.
>>>
>>> On 8/18/2015 1:35 PM, Tracy Pearson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Jeff Johnson wrote on 2015-08-18:
>>>>>
>>>>>         lcimage = TRANSFORM(caf_image) + '.' + ALLTRIM(caf_ext)
>>>>>         lcexportpath =
>>>>>         'D:\users\public\applications\ft_cafe\documents\export\' WAIT
>>>>>         WINDOW (lcexportpath) + lcimage + '/' + (lcexportpath) +
>>>>>         UPPER(doc_url) IF FILE((lcexportpath) + lcimage)
>>>>>             COPY FILE (lcexportpath) + lcimage TO (lcexportpath) +
>>>>>    UPPER(ALLTRIM(doc_url))
>>>>>         OR:
>>>>>             RENAME (lcexportpath) + lcimage TO (lcexportpath) +
>>>>>    UPPER(ALLTRIM(doc_url))
>>>>>         ELSE
>>>>>             MESSAGEBOX((lcexportpath) + lcimage + ' file not found.')
>>>>>         ENDIF
>>>>>
>>>>>    Either way it says "file not found" and the file is found because it
>>>>>    fails on the COPY and the RENAME.
>>>>>      What am I missing?
>>>>
>>>> Jeff,
>>>>
>>>> In some instances FILE() will return .T. if the file is found in the
>>>> PATH.
>>>> I have started to use
>>>>       ADIR(...) > 0
>>>> instead of
>>>>       FILE()
>>>>
>>>> Tracy Pearson
>>>> PowerChurch Software
>>>>
>>>>
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