I know you have a solution. I am wondering why no one mentioned the TEXT..ENDTEXT function. I use this a lot, it works great, and is much more flexable. My .02


>I have what I considered a very simple problem, but I have been unable to find a solution. I have a file with all character fields that I need to copy to an ascii file with no quotes around the fields.
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>The file will have variable length records so I can't used TYPE SDF, and when I do delimited with blank, I get quotes around each field. I need just the contents of each field copied directly to the ascii file with no quotes and no delimiters. There must be a simple way to do this. Any ideas?
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>TIA, Peter Renton