>Hi All,
>
>I need to build a string of tab delimited fields from a table. I have been using something similar to:
>
>

>cMyString = ""
>
>SCAN 
>
>  cMyString = m.cMyString + myTable.Field1 + CHR(9) + myTable.Field2 + CHR(9) + CHR(13)
>
>ENDSCAN
>

>
>Is there a faster way such as, for example, using TEXTMERGE?
>
>TIA

Yes, textmerge is going to be faster. Or fwrite (fput).

Even strtofile(lcMyString, 'c:\myFile.txt',.t.) is going to be faster, I think.

And also you may want to use COPY to command.