The syntax should work.

You tried:

? FILE("c:\lables\labelfile")

and it does work, but

lcFileName = "c:\lables\labelfile"
? FILE(lcFileName)

does not?

Is everything spelled right and don't you need an extension to labelfile? (i.e. you need the fullname including extension to have FILE() return .T.)



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>I have to use the file() function but I can't hard code the name and path as I don't know what it is until run time.
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>When I try to store the path and file name to a variable and then put the variable in the file() function it always returns true.
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>Something like this:
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>lcFileName = "c:\lables\labelfile"
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>?file(lcFileName)
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>Gives me false, but I know that file exists in that directory.
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>Any suggestions?
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