Michelle,

Ahhh...these are memo fields. The following should work, and will be faster, especially if you are copying a whole bunch of files. EXECSCRIPT() has to compile the line each time it executes.

local lcFromPath, lcToPath

lcFromPath = alltrim(mFromPath)
lcToPath = alltrim(mToPath)
copy file (lcFromPath) to (lcToPath)

>The variables are actually fields in a table with a list of files and where they need to be copied to. The contents vary, but it seems to be having a space in the file names that kill it.
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>Aha! I just found a way to do it. I went over to copy the code for you and noticed in the last thing I tried to do, I forgot the word "FILE". I added that and it worked. (That wasn't the problem in the original code, just the latest experiment)
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>Here's how it's working:
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>lcCommand = [COPY FILE"]+mFromPath+[" TO "]+mToPath+["]
>EXECSCRIPT(lcCommand)
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>Thanks,
>
>Michelle
>
>
>>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...