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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hi Bruce,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Yes nm is a filePro dummy field and it will have a space because it will have a first name, a space, and then a last name. I tried both of your suggestions below but I cannot save the output processing as I get an error about the syntax. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Here is what I tried and the error I received when checking the syntax on save:</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Suggestion 1</p><p class="MsoNormal">fn="/appl/user_exports/users/\""{nm{"\"/filepro/export.txt"</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Result:</p><p class="MsoNormal">*** A filePro Error Has Occurred ***</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Line Number: 36</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">fn="/appl/user_exports/users/\""{nm{"\"/filepro/export.txt"</p><p class="MsoNormal"> ^</p><p class="MsoNormal">Process contains a syntax error at position indicated.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Suggestion 2 </p><p class="MsoNormal">fn="/appl/user_exports/users/'"{nm{"'/filepro/export.txt"</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Result:</p><p class="MsoNormal">*** A filePro Error Has Occurred ***</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Line Number: 36</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">fn="/appl/user_exports/users/'"{nm{"'/filepro/export.txt"</p><p class="MsoNormal"> ^</p><p class="MsoNormal">Process contains a syntax error at position indicated.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">When using the system command in filePro (which passes things off to the Linux command line) I believe this syntax would work perfectly but since it’s being used with the export command does that require a different syntax?</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for your assistance,</p><p class="MsoNormal">Josh</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I'm assuming that "nm" is a filepro dummy field. Base on that you </p><p class="MsoNormal">simply need:</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">fn="/appl/user_exports/users/"{nm{"/filepro/export.txt"</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">However, since you mention "nm" have values representing names, I'll also assume that your "name" directory names may have spaces in them. If that's true, then you'll need quotes around what may have spaces, and since it would be in this string, you would need to backslash those double-quotes (for filePro interpretation):</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">fn="/appl/user_exports/users/\""{nm{"\"/filepro/export.txt"</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I'm not sure this works across all *nix, but using single quotes (instead of backslashed doubles) also worked for me on one unix box:</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">fn="/appl/user_exports/users/'"{nm{"'/filepro/export.txt"</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">But you definitely need double quotes up against the braces surrounding the dummy field for filepro to understand how to concatenate the string.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Bruce</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>