>Michelle,
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>VFP has a whole collection of low-level file functions to accomplish what you would like to do. Here are some of the commands you'll need
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>handle=FOPEN()
>opens a file up (the mode depends on the parameters you give it.
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>FGET()
>reads in a line (depending again on parameters as to the length of the line)
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>FPUT()
>writes a line
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>FCLOSE()
>closes the file
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>FEOF()
>determines weather end of file has been reached.
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>and you would then use string manipulation to process what you have read from the file before you write back out.
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>
>HTH
Also be aware of FREAD() and FWRITE() when there are no lines (CR/LF) in the file to be read from or written to and FSEEK() when you need to know where the byte pointer in the file is or to place it at a particular location.