>I've tried to simulate your problem here but can't get the file to save with a space. Anyway, I was going to try two things.
>
>1) try macro substitution
>
>m.f = " file.txt"
>ERASE &f
>or
>DELETE FILE &f
>
>2) use the DOS copy command to remove the space then delete it. The foxpro copy command might also work instead of shelling to DOS.
>
>copy ?file.txt _file.txt
>ERASE _file.txt

Hi Benjamin,

The macro substitution doesn't work.

A problem with this is the file is " _99CA.DBF" and there are 12 other files in the directory "JUL_99CA.DBF", "AUG_99CA.DBF", "SEP_99CA.DBF", etc.. and a wildcard may not hit the file I'm after.