>>>>>Hi Fred,
>>>>>
>>>>>>>Any idea on how to write a FoxPro memo field to a text file?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>COPY MEMO memofieldname TO filename
>>>>>
>>>>>Your method seems better than the one I suggested for some reason ;-)
>>>>
>>>>Anything that works is a good method. I just try to go with what's built in, if I can. Something about not re-inventing the wheel, comes to mind... ;)
>>>
>>>I like STRTOFILE(), if for no other reason than it tells me how long the damned file is...
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>>That's true, it will write to the file AND tell you how long it is in one command, if you need to know. A LEN() and then a COPY MEMO TO FILE takes 2. But STRTOFILE() is a VFP6 only command.
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>This is a problem? (see my original reply that pointed out the two solutions...)

Not for me. I'm not sure what the original poster has for VFP. And, yes, you did spell out clearly that STRTOFILE() was a VFP6 only function. I didn't see that post until after I made mine. So where's the 3rd way of doing it in VFP, or do we count Mike's original solution (LLFF's) as the 3rd?