RENAME

Class

Disk and File Utilities

Purpose

Change the name of a file

Syntax

RENAME <.dbf filename1> | (<expC>)[TO] <.dbf filename2> | (<expC>)

See Also

ALIAS, COPY FILE

Description

The RENAME command renames <filename1> to <filename2>. Either filename can be substituted with an <expC>, enclosed in round brackets, which returns a valid filename. If <filename2> already exists, the original file is overwritten. If no file extension is present in the file name, then the Recital/4GL uses '.dbf'. You cannot rename a file that is open. You cannot rename a file onto another disk, the COPY FILE command can be used for this purpose.

Example

rename patrons.dbf to patron.dbf
rename events.ndx event.ndx

Products

Recital Database Server, Recital Mirage Server, Recital Terminal Developer