>Well, somehow a chr(7) got into the data
> :-)
>
>I filter that out and verything is OK
>
>Peter
>


i use following to stip bad characters

lcBadChar = ""
for i = 0 to 32
   if ( ! inlist( i, 9, 10, 13 ) )
         lcBadChar = lcBadChar + chr(i)
   endif
endfor

lcReturnSTring = chrtran(lcMemoString,lcBadChar,space(len(lcBadChar)))

RETURN lcReturnString