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hi Otto,

Otto wrote:I tried ChatGPT

Answer from ChatGPT might work ... but a Hash is not "readable" for Human

as Marc say to change last 2 Sign (of 10) is enough to make it unique for 99 "Header"

... which are longer than 10 Sign for FIELD in DBF those "Header" Name can be equal on SUBSTR("Headername",1,10) so i need a "Shortname" did somebody know a Way to get a unique "Shortname" from String which is longer than 10 Sign :?: At first I simply did something ...

... which are longer than 10 Sign for FIELD in DBF those "Header" Name can be equal on SUBSTR("Headername",1,10) so i need a "Shortname" did somebody know a Way to get a unique "Shortname" from String which is longer than 10 Sign There are several ways to create ...

... which are longer than 10 Sign for FIELD in DBF those "Header" Name can be equal on SUBSTR("Headername",1,10) so i need a "Shortname" did somebody know a Way to get a unique "Shortname" from String which is longer than 10 Sign :?:

Dear Otto,

Apps are the same as applications. Its just a shortname for them.

Enrico,

You example works fine because you are previously creating a longname file.

If Silvio does not create it, as he should do, then the Windows API will not work

richard-service wrote:? LFN2SFN( "This is a long name" ) --> Empty

Test FWH801

Are you using my sample without changes? If yes, do you want my EXE to test there? I'm using latest FWH.

EMG

Richard,

You need to have a file or a folder with that name in order to get LFN2SFN() working.

It is a Windows API requirement.

The following sample works fine here: #include "Fivewin.ch"FUNCTION MAIN()    MEMOWRIT( "This is a long name", "Test" )    ? LFN2SFN( "This is a long name" )    RETURN NIL EMG ? LFN2SFN( "This is a long name" ) --> Empty T...

Antonio Linares wrote:Richard,

Is CurDir() returning a long filename ?

Yes, c:\program files

The following sample works fine here:

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#include "Fivewin.ch"


FUNCTION MAIN()

    MEMOWRIT( "This is a long name", "Test" )

    ? LFN2SFN( "This is a long name" )

    RETURN NIL

EMG

Richard,

Is CurDir() returning a long filename ?

Enrico Maria Giordano wrote:Try:

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Lfn2Sfn()

EMG

Hi EMG,

Thanks. I will try it.
But I got Empty.

Ex.
Lfn2Sfn( curdir() )

OS: XP

Try:

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Lfn2Sfn()

EMG

Hi All,

Ex. c:\progam files\aaa" --> c:\program~1\aaa