>>>>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
>
>The first thing is that you do not have an idea about the file format. Normaly one would know the type of line break.
>So we do it in general
>

>CLEAR
>#DEFINE dcCRLF	0h0D0A
>#DEFINE dcCR	0h0D
>#DEFINE dcLF	0h0A
>
>lcFile = "Your File Name"
>lcData = ALLTRIM(FILETOSTR(lcFile))
>
>*We do not have an idea what file type we have
>*lets figure it out
>*if the line breaks are mixed, not with this programm
>*this would need some more things (or a loop, but this is boring)
>DO CASE
> CASE dcCRLF$lcData
>* this is a CRLF File
>  lcLineBreak = dcCRLF
> CASE dcCR$lcData
>* this is a LF File
>  lcLineBreak = dcCRLF
> CASE dcLF$lcData
>* this is a LF File
>  lcLineBreak = dcCRLF
> OTHERWISE
>*no idea, do nothing
>  lcLineBreak = .NULL.
>ENDCASE
>
>*to format all files with CRLF replace .f. with .t.
>IF .F. THEN
> lcLineBrkNew = dcCRLF
>ELSE  &&.F.
> lcLineBrkNew = lcLineBreak
>ENDIF &&.F.
>
>IF !ISNULL(lcLineBreak) THEN
>*we found something, lets do
> lcData = STRTRAN(lcData,lcLineBreak,lcLineBrkNew+' ')
>ENDIF &&!ISNULL(lcLineBreak)
>?lcData
>

Very helpful thanks