>I have set up a table with paths to different places on local drives and in our system where files reside that foxpro has to take action on. I am havinf trouble with copy file to syntax. I need the following line to use my table path
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>Copy File &dty2 To \\gv-engineering\drawing\wgen\pre_pdf\hold\&dty2
>Note the above is functioning now.
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>Desire to be
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>Copy File &dty2 To &pdfhold + &dty2

Rule of thumb: don't use & for filenames on a system which allows for spaces in filenames, because you'll get syntax error. Use name expressions.

Second, why not

Copy File (dty2) To (forcepath(dty2,pdfhold))

I use Forcepath() a lot, because it handles the backslash for me, and handles most of the trimming of spaces (except any leading spaces in the path part: try

?'*'+FORCEPATH(" aa ", " bb ")+'*'

and you'll see you'll get all the spaces trimmed except the one before the path).