I'm not sure why do you need TEXT...ENDTEXT. Try
\\<<m.lcFileContent>>
Or even simpler
STRTOFILE(FILETOSTR(sometextfile), lcOutputFile, .T.)
>I'm using the TEXTMERGE command to combine several text files into one as follows:
>
>
>SET TEXTMERGE ON TO myfile.txt ADDITIVE
>
>FOR m.liFile = 1 TO 10
> * variable 'sometextfile' below will change to a different filename...
> m.lcFileContent = FILETOSTR(sometextfile)
> TEXT PRETEXT 1+2+4
> <<m.lcFileContent>>
> ENDTEXT
>ENDFOR
>
>=CLOSE(_TEXT)
>
>
>After running this code, the resulting file always has an empty line preceding the contents of each individual line even though I've specified the PRETEXT value of 2.
>
>Is this a bug or am I screwing up somewhere?
>
>TIA
>Mike
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