Adding Extension to Written File

[writhziden]

I have a program that reads the name of a file and from the name creates a new file. It's done by setting the name of the original file as a character variable, x, and then substituting that variable into "FILE=x"

Is there a way to add .txt or .xls or something similar after the x?

 

[johnhors]

Yes there is!

Just add //'.txt' after the string variable which will concatenate the text string '.txt' on to your string variable

FILE=x//'txt'

 

[DanTex]

You might want that to be something like....

File= TRIM(x)//'.txt'

The above will get rid of the excess spaces at the end of 'x'. Also... you must make sure you declare x and File to be Character variables of sufficient length.

Dan

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