No, 5. I got it working now.

Thanks,

Michelle


>Do you VFP 6.0? This might work:
>
>lcText = FileToStr( lcFileName )
>
>lcText = STRTRAN(lcText, "1999", "99")
>lcText = STRTRAN(lcText, "0000", "")
>
>StrToFile(lcText, lcFileName)
>
>>Can anyone tell me how to do low level file manipulation in VFP? I have a file with row after row that looks something like this:
>>
>>01010212199909380000098463
>>
>>And I need to make it look like this:
>>
>>01010212990938098463
>>
>>Another tricky part is that the first line in the file is a header that's different from the rest.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Michelle