>>I have a text file that is being created by VFP, and it has some blank dates in it - so when they do the export it looks like this:
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>>|01/15/2017|/ /|02/17/2016
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>>..the problem is that part where it says "/ /" -- well I need that to be completely blank with no spaces or anything -- so that the line in the file ends up looking like this:
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>>|01/15/2017||02/17/2016
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>>Anyone know of an easy way to do this? Or maybe a tweek to the COPY TO command that's creating the file to being with???
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>>Thanks :)
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Strtran(lcString,"/  /","")

But it's a date field in the table not a character field so I don't see how I could use that. What I'm doing is a copy command like this:

COPY TO &afile delimited with "" with character '|'

...I suppose I could copy to a temp table, add a new column that is a character field, then use the DTOC() that holds the character value of the date and wrap what you're saying around that.

so I would:
1. Copy to a temp table
2. Alter temp table, add new field
3. Do something like this to populate new field: replace all myFieldB with Strtran( DTOC(myFieldA),"/ /","")
4. Alter temp table to remove the original date field
5. run my COPY TO command

Seems like a pain in the neck though lol -- I would think there should be a better way.