>>I have a select statement gathering fields into a cursor which is then copied to a delimited text file. Has worked fine until last night.
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>>It is selecting several logical fields (among others) like this:
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>>IIF(no_reinst=.F., "False", "True") as no_reinst, ;
>>IIF(no_chks=.F., "False", "True") as no_chks, ;
>>IIF(no_eft=.F., "False", "True") as no_eft, ;
>>IIF(web_msr=.F., "False", "True") as web_msr, ;
>>

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>>The line selecting the web_msr field is truncating and inserting "Fals" as the value when .F. This is not happening on the selection of the other logical fields. Any idea what might cause this?
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>>Thanks,
>>KP
>
>Because when you select strings like this in VFP the FIRST resulted record defines the length of the field.
>In your case maybe the first record has "True" as result and that way the length of the field becomes 4.
>So PAD all strings to have the same length:
>

>IIF(no_reinst, "True ", "False") as no_reinst, ;
>IIF(no_chks  , "True ", "False") as no_chks, ;
>IIF(no_eft   , "True ", "False") as no_eft, ;
>IIF(web_msr  , "True ", "False") as web_msr, ;
>

>BTW the field is logocal. There is NO NEED to compare it to .t. or .f., Just check the field.


I had that happen a while back when doing some imports into SQL server and discovered that was the case. Should have thought of that. Thanks for your help!

KP