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VERSION( ) Function

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Returns information about the Visual FoxPro version you are using.

VERSION(nExpression)

Return Values

Character, Numeric

Parameters

  • nExpression
    Specifies that VERSION( ) returns additional information about Visual FoxPro. If you omit nExpression, VERSION( ) returns the Visual FoxPro version number.

    The following table lists values for nExpression and the additional Visual FoxPro information returned.

    nExpression Additional Visual FoxPro information returned
    1 Visual FoxPro date and serial number.
    2 Visual FoxPro version type:0 - Run time version1 - Standard Edition (earlier versions)2 - Professional Edition (earlier versions)
    3 Localized Visual FoxPro language. The following two character values indicate the language for which Visual FoxPro is localized:
    00 - English
    07 - Russian
    33 - French
    34 - Spanish
    39 - Italian
    42 - Czech
    48 - Polish
    49 - German
    55 - Portuguese
    82 - Korean
    86 - Simplified Chinese
    88 - Traditional Chinese
    4 The Visual FoxPro version number in a standard, easily parsed format.

    For versions prior to Visual FoxPro 8 the standard format is "MM.mm.0000.DDDD" where MM is the major release number, mm is the incremental minor revision number, 0000 is a fixed placeholder, and DDDD is the four digit product date for the day the version was created.

    The product date, DDDD, is calculated in the following formula: 8000 + number of days since the beginning of 1998. For example, 8397 corresponds to February 1, 1999.

    However, the format for Visual FoxPro 8 is "MM.mm.0000.NNDD" where MM is the major release number, mm is the incremental minor revision number, 0000 is a fixed placeholder, NN is the number of months after December 2000, and DD is the day number of the date the version was created.
    5 The Visual FoxPro release version in the format Mmm where M is the major release number and mm is the incremental minor revision number. For example, VERSION(5) returns 700 in Visual FoxPro 7.

Remarks

Use VERSION( ) to conditionally execute version-specific portions of code.

VERSION( ), VERSION(1), VERSION(3), and VERSION(4) return character strings; VERSION(2) and VERSION(5) return numeric values.

Example

CLEAR
? VERSION( )
? VERSION(1)
? VERSION(2)
? VERSION(3)
? VERSION(4)
? VERSION(5)

See Also

GETCP( ) | GETENV( ) | OS( ) | AGETFILEVERSION