The 'BLANK' option can only be used as a field separator. If you want to surround fields with spaces

COPY TO (tcOutputPath) DELIMITED WITH " " WITH CHARACTER |

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>Right from the help file:
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>COPY TO mytxt.txt DELIMITED WITH _ WITH CHARACTER ';'
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>so why do I get a syntax error with:
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>COPY TO (tcOutputPath) DELIMITED WITH BLANK WITH CHARACTER |
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>Just so you don't have to look it up in the help file:
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>DELIMITED WITH CHARACTER Delimiter
>Creates a delimited file with all fields enclosed by the character specified with Delimiter. If Delimiter is a semicolon (the character used in Visual FoxPro to indicate command line continuation), enclose the semicolon in quotation marks. You can also specify the BLANK and TAB keywords for Delimiter.
>Note that the WITH Delimiter clause can be combined with the WITH CHARACTER clause. For example, the following command creates a text file with character fields enclosed by underscores and all fields delimited from each other with semicolons:
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>COPY TO mytxt.txt DELIMITED WITH _ WITH CHARACTER ';'