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>>And we already have a single method which will do it in one step:
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>>_vfp.datatoclip(,,3)
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>>Then it's only a matter of manipulating that one string on the clipboard into a format we want. The fields are separated by tabs, records by CRLF (or was it just CR?). Nice and easy.
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>>There's the trouble with the field names being in the first line, but it takes just two commands to remove it.
>[picking up forehead from the dented desk]
>And even things like copy file type sdf, which already remove the first line and takes only one line to add into string...

Sdf is more like a blind ASCII copy of the table, without the extra byte(s) before the first field, i.e. it's not delimited. And I've just caught SDF export in exporting nulls as zeros. _vfp.datatoclip(,,3) exports them as spaces. Other than that, either may be acceptable, depending on the intended use.