You're right, I didn't need TEXT...ENDTEXT. STRTOFILE() works fine and I'm not sure why I went with TEXT...ENDTEXT. I guess TEXT...ENDTEXT is embedded in my brain since I've been generating a lot of HTML content lately.

Thanks.

>I'm not sure why do you need TEXT...ENDTEXT. Try
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>\\<<m.lcFileContent>>
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>Or even simpler
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>STRTOFILE(FILETOSTR(sometextfile), lcOutputFile, .T.)
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>>I'm using the TEXTMERGE command to combine several text files into one as follows:
>>
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>>SET TEXTMERGE ON TO myfile.txt ADDITIVE
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>>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)
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>>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.
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>>Is this a bug or am I screwing up somewhere?
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>>TIA
>>Mike