>>>>Very similar to EDI. Is there always a CR, LF, or some sort of character at the end of each record (which is called a segment in EDI terms)?
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>>>I haven't seen the output specs in detail, but it looks like there is. Peter posted some code that looks like a good start. Did you have any other ideas?
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>>Yes. I would use alines(). Hang on a sec, I'm looking at some code to post up here.
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>As long as you have less than 65K elements in VFP8.

Actually, I know I put VFP8 in the message header, but I can use VFP9 for this if I do the processing in the service I'm writing itself instead of the destination application, which is in version 8. Does that make a difference?