Thank you for the reply

This is my code (simplify):

* Generate .csv file, send to principle
* The result is like this:
* INVOICE,TRANSACTION_TYPE,REPLACEMENT,...
* 100433,sales,no,...
* 100434,sales,no,...

* My steps:
* 1) create a cursor (tax_inv)
* 2) insert the header
* 3) insert the detail, from table inv
* 4) export to another cursor (tax_inv1) as one string
* 5) copy to .csv

* The error is at step 4, error message: String is too long to fit.
* The .csv must have header, but the header is too long 
* Is it possible to generate .csv the other way?

* 1) 
CREATE CURSOR tax_inv (col1 c(30), col2 c(30), col3 c(30), col4 c(30), col5 c(30),col6 c(30), col7 c(30), col8 c(30), col9 c(30), col10 c(30),col11 c(30), col12 c(30), col13 c(30), col14 c(30), col15 c(30),col16 c(30), col17 c(30), col18 c(30), col19 c(30),col20 c(30))

* 2) 
INSERT INTO tax_inv (col1,col2,col3,col4,col5,col6,col7,col8,col9,col10,col11,col12,col13,col14,col15,col16,col17,col18,col19,col20) VALUES;  ('INVOICE','TRANSACTION_TYPE','REPLACEMENT_INVOICE','INVOICE_NUMBER','TAX_PERIOD','TAX_YEAR','DATE','TAX_ID','CUSTOMER_NAME','ADDRESS','INVOICE_AMOUNT','TAX_AMOUNT','AMOUNT','REMARK','DOWN_PAYMENT','DOWN_PAYMENT_TAX','DOWN_PAYMENT_TAX','DOWN_PAYMENT_LUXURY_TAX','CUSTOMER_REFERENCE','ADDITIONAL_REMARK') 

* 3) 
SELECT inv
SCAN 
	INSERT INTO tax_inv (col1,col2,col3,col4,col5,col6,col7,col8,col9,col10,col11,col12,col13,col14,col15,col16,col17,col18,col19,col20);
	VALUES (inv.col1,inv.col2,inv.col3,inv.col4,inv.col5,inv.col6,inv.col7,inv.col8,inv.col9,inv.col10,inv.col11,inv.col12,inv.col13,inv.col14,inv.col15,inv.col16,inv.col17,inv.col18,inv.col19,inv.col20)
ENDSCAN

* 4) 
SELECT allt(col1)+','+allt(col2)+','+allt(col3)+','+allt(col4)+','+allt(col5)+','+allt(col6)+','+allt(col7)+','+allt(col8)+','+allt(col9)+','+alltr(col10)+','+allt(col11)+','+allt(col12)+','+allt(col13)+','+allt(col14)+','+allt(col15)+','+allt(col16)+','+allt(col17)+','+allt(col18)+','+allt(col19)+','+allt(col20) as result1 FROM tax_inv INTO CURSOR tax_inv1

* 5)
SELECT tax_inv1
COPY TO 'tax_inv.csv' delimited with "" with character ',' 

Thanks in advance

Jerry Yang



>What? That's simply not true, you can create a text file of any size with VFP, up to 4GB (or is it 2GB).
>
>Maybe you should show us your code?
>
>>I want to export text file, it needs to be 258 characters long, but VFP can only generate text file with 255 characters.
>>
>>Is there any solution?
>>
>>Thanks for the help
>>
>>Jerry Yang