Illegal characters in filename

[edk]

Thanks Jimmy,

That's the solution ! Because of the nature of my program the 'USE' is in a loop from a DIR function
and my USE is this construction:

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IF lOpenMode                                              
    if cNew = 'NEW'                                       
       USE ( cDatabase ) EXCLUSIVE  NEW ALIAS cALIAS      
    ELSE                                                  
       USE ( cDatabase ) EXCLUSIVE ALIAS cALIAS           
    ENDIF                                                 
ELSE                                                      
    if cNew = 'NEW'                                       
       USE ( cDatabase ) SHARED NEW ALIAS cALIAS          
    ELSE                                                  
       USE ( cDatabase ) SHARED ALIAS cALIAS              
    ENDIF                                                 
ENDIF                                                     
                                                          
IF !NETERR()                                              
   RETURN ( TRUE )                          
ENDIF                                                   

This now works perfect! Thanks again!

Serge

In case you want to open several DBFs with an unusual name in different areas this might be helpful:

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#include "hmg.ch"

Function Main

Local cDBF := "6. März - Wöchentliche Backup-Datei.dbf", i

IF !FILE(cDBF)

	DBCREATE(cDBF, { {'ID','N',10,0} , {'NAME','C',30,0}, {'FLAG','C',3,0} } )
	USE (cDBF) ALIAS (ValidAliasName (cDBF))
	FOR i := 1 TO 2000
		APPEND BLANK
		REPLACE id WITH i
		REPLACE name WITH "Name #" + AllTrim(Str(i))
		REPLACE flag WITH IF (i % 3 = 0, "C", IF ( i % 2 = 0, "B", "A" ) )
	NEXT i
	
	CLOSE
	
ENDIF
	
USE (cDBF) ALIAS (ValidAliasName (cDBF)) SHARED
	
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Return

********************************************************
Function ValidAliasName ( cAliasName )
Local i, cValidAliasName := ""
cAliasName := hb_FNameName( cAliasName )
cAliasName := IF ( .NOT. IsAlpha( cAliasName ), "X", "") + cAliasName		//alias must begins alpha
FOR i := 1 TO Len ( cAliasName )
	cValidAliasName += IF ( Lower(SubStr( cAliasName, i, 1)) $ "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890_", SubStr( cAliasName, i, 1), "_" )   
NEXT i
RETURN cValidAliasName
*********************************************

[serge_girard]

Thanks Edward and Jimme,

Great solutions!

Serge