Jean-Pierre

You don't have to use a GENERAL field for this. You can use a plain MEMO field to store the rtf text. If you use the RTF control that ships with VFP you can just read/write to it's TextRTF property

>APPEND GENERAL gRtf FROM C:\TEST.RTF
>MODIFY GENERAL gRtf
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>How do I get the formatted text out of this general field in the same format as the c:\test.rtf file (the readable ascii (with \par and \tab)), because I need to check for some words:
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>
>lcRtf=??????????? && Your solution goes here
>if 'TEST'$lcRtf
> ....
>endif
>
>
>An other way might be:
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>EXPORT gRtf TO C:\TEMP.RTF
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>and reed this file before the check, but I can't figure out how to export a general field...