What do your dates look like e.g. 03-Jul-2000 <- Not supported. 03-07-2000 <- Would need to use SET MARK TO "-" 03/07/2000 How are your records delimited? Are all of your values in quotes? Why not just use something like the following? For comma delimited: APPEND FROM -SourceFile.Txt- TYPE DELIM For Tab delimited: APPEND FROM -SourceFile.Txt- TYPE DELIM WITH TAB For fixed length fields (i.e. no separators) APPEND FROM -SourceFile.Txt- TYPE SDFthis list could get very big!