Change STRTRAN to replace , , with ,"",
STRTOFILE( STRTRAN(FILETOSTR(lcFileName), [, ,], [,"",]), lcNewFileName)
>Hmmm.....that gave me the same result as when I simply appended the original csv....
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>I think the problem may be, as Nadia pointed out, that the original file has the blank items as:
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>, ,
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>instead of:
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>,"",
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>C
--sb--