Hi Dennis,
I ran it on my VFP 8 SP1, and got the same thing. May be a bug that has been here for a while.

HTH
Beth

>I think I have come across a bug in VFP9 SP1.
>Using the COPY TO command when a field is one character long and it's empty the output file will have a space in that position but if the field is two or more characters long the position will not have the space.
>
>

>CREATE CURSOR test1 (f3 c(3),f2 c(2),f1 c(1),n1 n(1,0),n2 n(3,1))
>APPEND BLANK
>COPY TO test1.txt DELIMITED WITH "" WITH CHARACTER "|"
>

>
>Output File:
>

>|| |0|0.0
>

>
>Note that the field f1 in the output file shows a space when it should be empty like f2 and f3.
>
>Has anyone else ever ran into this before?
>
>Dennis