Good question I had not thought of that.

This is kind of the direction I was going with it...
lnFileHandle = FOPEN(mytFileName.Value, 0)
lnFileSize = FSEEK(lnFileHandle,0 ,2)

FOR lnPointerLocation = 1 TO lnFileSize
lnSeekedSpot = FSEEK(lnFileHandle, lnPointerLocation, 0)
lcCharacter = FREAD(lnFineHandle, 1)

lnANSIvalue = ASC(lcCharacter)
EndFor

....then I was going to see if lnANSI value is a carriage return or line feed or tab - I just need to find out what ANSI values those are ...assume I'm even on the right path here...haha)


>JAG Does the have Tab characters embedded?
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>>I'm creating a text file which is basically an export of some data.
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>>The problem I seem to be having is that when the guy who's using this file tries to import it, he's saying that I must have some embedded carriage returns in some of the lines. Of course I open the file with wordpad or ultraedit or whatever I don't see that problem. However before I say "I don't think so" I want to be sure this isn't happening. Perhaps one of the data-fields I'm grabbing has this in it.
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>>So here is my question. How can I look through a text file with VFP and search for carriage returns, line feeds, or whatever else might cause this?
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>>Thanks!