>I have a situation where FILETOSTR() sometimes fails. THe call is:
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>FILETOSTR("My text", "MyFile.Txt", .F.)
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>Any ideas what could cause this to fail?

Craig,

FILETOSTR only takes the name of the file as the argument and returns the file's contents as a string. Are you confusing this with STRTOFILE? STRTOFILE would take the arguments as you've used them in your example.

Scott