>I am trying to make a text file template, read it into a string, merge the contents with textmerge, and return the final string.
>
>Why would the below code not work?
>
>Thanks.
>
>

>Function MergeMe
>Lparameters aliasName as String , templateName as String
>	Local ;
>		xxxDbc as Exception , ;
>		outValue as String , ;
>		templateText as String
>	Local ;
>		mergeText as String
>	templateText = FileToStr( templateName )
>	? templateText + Chr(13)+Chr(10) +":"+Chr(13)+Chr(10)
>	Set TextMerge Delimiters To "{{" , "}}"
>*!*				set textmerge to MemVar mergeText
>*!*				set textmerge on
>*!*				   \\{{Datetime()}}
>*!*				   \
>*!*				set textmerge off
>*!*				set textmerge to
>	set textmerge to MemVar mergeText
>	set textmerge on
>	   \\&templateText
>	   \
>	set textmerge off
>	set textmerge to
>Return mergeText
>EndFunc
>

>
>textboxstring.template file contents:
>

>Datetime()
>

>
>Thanks.

Try :
\\{{eval(templateText)}}

Cetin