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steffen you make a good point regarding the extension I must have been thinking 1-0 and A and B is 12 months ! LOL The conversion of the date to a number makes the work a lot more complex I like knowing what the file is just by looking at it - however I actually extract the date from the inside of t...

I have a long list of file names in a directory called %cd%/test2 a portion of which shown below I need to make the file names conform to 8.3 standard length and still retain some information so I can validate them I need to parse them in a dos batch so they are valid when I open up my program in fo...