>I need to read in a ascii file and do a string search on each line and
>denpending on what is found with the string search, I will write out to another ascii file. The form will be:
>open first ascii file
>open second ascii file
>do while .t.
> read in a line of the first ascii
> if search criteria is met
> write out a line to the second ascii file
> else
> loop
>endif
>endo
>
>I will then do a APPEND FROM to bring the second ascii file into a vfp dbf. Any ideas?

It has always been my experience that placing the file in a memo field allows for easier manipulation. Also, VFP6 now has new commands filetostr and strtofile that might make life easier with ASCII file manipulation.


Wayne