Subject Re: USE A STRING AS A FILE NAME From Lee Grant <camilee@nospam.comcast.net> Date Sat, 25 Jun 2022 19:31:23 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Ed, In the OLH manual, look up Macro.  The '&' before a variable indicates it is a macro to be executed. That's why you created the variable to hold a string that you wanted created, so that it could be executed in real time, using a macro is the only way to do what you want, and it requires the use of macro operator '&'.  You need to start at the beginning of programming with dBASE. :) Lee On 6/25/2022 9:06 AM, ED FURCHE wrote: > 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..... > > Why doesn't  this work? >       stname="g:\excel\cash012022.csv" >       stname="!XCOPY " + stname + " G:\CASH.CSV" >       !stname >