FileCopy Statement

Description

Copies a file.

Syntax

FileCopy source, destination

The FileCopy statement syntax has these named argument parts:

Part	Description

*source*	String expression that specifies the name of the file to be copied — may include directory or folder, and drive.
*destination*	String expression that specifies the target file name — may include directory or folder, and drive.

Remarks

Open files can only be copied for read-only access.

See Also

Kill Statement, Name Statement.

Example

This example uses the FileCopy statement to copy one file to another. For purposes of this example, assume that SRCFILE is a file containing some data.

SourceFile = "SRCFILE"    ' Define source file name.
DestinationFile = "DESTFILE"    ' Define target file name.
FileCopy SourceFile, DestinationFile    ' Copy source to target.