#DEFINE CRLF CHR(13)+CHR(10) LOCAL lcTextVar AS String lcTextVar = "This is the first Line of text" lcTextVar = lcTextVar + CRLF + "This is the second Line of text" lcTextVar = lcTextVar + CRLF + "This is the third Line of text" lcTextVar = lcTextVar + " with appended text to the end of the line instead of adding a new line" *-* You can keep adding text content to lcTextVar -- at least upto your memory constraints SELECT mytable GOTO RECORD 1 REPLACE mytable.myfield WITH lcTextVar =STRTOFILE(lcTextVar,"MyTextFile.txt")