>That's the problem. I always think giving more information is better, but in a case like this I should have simply asked how to strip control characters out of a string; the rest was superfluous. Thanks!

I don't think it was superfluous.

Now that you stripped off the character you stripped off the line ends, instead of stripping off chr(10) (I assume) you could have replaced it by chr(13)+chr(10).

strtofile(strtran(filetostr("yourfile"),chr(10),chr(13)+chr(10)),"yourtranslatedfile")

Then you can APPEND that data to your table, which seems to be the final goal.

Bye, Olaf.