Paul,

Why not just use COPY TO ... TYPE ? It'll be much faster.

You can use TRANSFORM(eval(...)) to convert Mike's code into a string suitable for fputs.

>I am wanting to write a routine that takes a table name as a parameter and then will export all of the data. Something like this:
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>lparameters cTable
>
>if used(cTable) = .f.
>     x3winmsg("The Table "+alltrim(cTable)+" is not Opened")
>     return .f.
>else
>     nFile = fcreate(cTable+".exp")
>     for nCntr = 1 to fcount(cTable)
>  	fputs(nFile,?)
>     endfor
>endif
>
>

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>I don't know the syntax in VFP for referencing a field when I don't know the name of the field. In other words to replace the question mark in the preceeding code.