Hi Ryan,

Your dates should not be a problem for VFP if they are recognised by CTOD().

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 SDF

this list could get very big!

More info would be useful.
Regards,
Houston.