Michelle,

The syntax you are using should work, assuming filevar1 and filevar2 are character expressions and the files exist.

How are these two variables created (can you post more code)? Please post what their contents are when it fails...

>I'm writing a backup program and need to be able to copy files from within VFP7. Using COPY FILE (filevar1) TO (filevar2) is giving me a headache. Sometimes it works, sometimes it says "Not a character expression". I've tried adding quotes around it like ["]+ (filevar1) + ["] in case it's an issue with spaces in the file name, but it doesn't like that, either. Is there a better way of doing this? I searched the help, but didn't see another command for it. Any ideas?
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>Thanks,
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>Michelle