>>>My code stores a singe character to ff
>>>
>>>How do I test ff for FF, LF and CR characters
>>>
>>>Simple I know
>>>
>>>One of those days
>>>
>>>Colin
>>
>>in general $ or AT()
>>

>>lcString =`'ABCD'
>>?'A'$lcString
>>?'a'$lcString
>>?at('A',lcString)
>>?at('a',lcString)
>>

>>for CR,LF etc you can use CHR() or the 0h Syntax
>>

>>lcCHR = CHR(13)
>>lcCHR2=0h0D
>>?lcCHR=lcCHR2
>>

>>
>>For the codes see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
>
>I have revised one line to IF chn=CHR(10) OR chn=CHR(13)
>
>But it is still not creating the blanks

You can use something like this, which will actually do the whole job for you:

lcYourtext = Strtran(lcYourtext,chr(10),chr(10) + ' ')
lcYourtext = Strtran(lcYourtext,chr(13),chr(13) + ' ')