Subject Re: USE A STRING AS A FILE NAME From Mattia <mattia@nospam.com> Date Wed, 22 Jun 2022 02:54:36 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started ED FURCHE Wrote: > I WANT TO USE A STRING AS A FILE NAME > EXAMPLE  STNAME=" 012022.CSV" USED IN A DOS COPY COMMAND > I TRIED THIS... >     !XCOPY @STNAME G:\VISPLUS   AND >     !XCOPY &STNAME  G:\VISPLUS   AND >     !XCOPY %STNAME > > NONE WORKED..... You can create a string with the entire command and then use & operator str1 = "!XCOPY " + stname + " G:\VISPLUS\" &str1 Check that correct paths are used If you want  to check the command use msgbx(str1,"",0) Mattia