>I'm finishing a project that has "converted" fp 2.5 for DOS to VFP 9. One of the programs opens a table and copies it to a text file (type SDF). In 2.5 blank numerics were created with the replace command and copied to the text file as blanks. In VFP the numerics are, well numeric with a zero value which is then copied to the file. They want to see blanks again. I could open the text file and stuff the values but have been looking for a way to get VFP to either leave the blank numerics empty and/or copy them as blanks.
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>thanks, jeff

Use BLANK command.

UPDATE. Disregard, didn't read your requirements carefully. For text files you would have to convert them using any of the available text manipulation commands as you planned.