Sheena,

Those bar characters are typically low ASCII code characters, like Tabs, if this is an import you can use the \vfp\tools\hexedit\hexedit.app program to view the raw data. If the bars are showing up in a table field you may have corrupted records.

>My application is giving me a numeric data overflow error after we've just processed a new run of data.
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>It appears to be placing funny characters in one of the
>fields - llllllllllllllllll
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>This is a character (60) field.
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>Does anybody know what could be causing this error?
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>How can I replace this with blanks when I don't know what it represents?
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>Any input would be appreciated.