>>>>It is probably a Monday morning blind spot
>>>>
>>>>I want to create a text file where the headings all alphabetic are on one dbf
>>>>
>>>>and the detail to go under the headings is a mixture of text, numeric and dates on another dbf
>>>>
>>>>Can I copy the data from the first file to a text file and somehow append the data from the second file to the same text file?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Colin
>>>
>>>Sure,
>>>Check STRTOFILE() function and especially last parameter :-)
>>
>>Thanks can you give me example code
>>
>>one.dbf has the text headings
>>
>>two.dbf has the data which should appear in the text file under the headings
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Colin
>

>lcx = ''
>lcDelim = ' '
>sele one && Field cHeader for the headers
>scan
> lcx = lcx+alltr(cHeader)+lcDelim
>endscan
>lcx = left(lcx,len(lcx)-len(lcDelim))+0h0D0A
>
>sele two
>scan
> lcx = lcx+transform(Field1)+lcDelim
> lcx = lcx+transform(Field2)+lcDelim
> *..
> lcx = lcx+transform(Fieldn)+lcDelim
> lcx = left(lcx,len(lcx)-len(lcDelim))+0h0D0A
>endscan
>lcx = left(lcx,len(lcx)-2)
>
>strtofile(lcx,'Yourfile.ext')
>

>
>something like this?
>You can replace TRANSFORM with something mor meaningfull, also remove spaces etc.

Seems to work but every fleld has to be worked on separately because they have differnt lengths and properties - but thanks