I need to use the STRTOFILE command to write a strint to a file. The problem I am having is the string needs to have carriage returns included within it (or I could break it up and write the string in several sections). I tried using the following code:

buildstr="Error occured at "+ttoc(datetime())+chr(13)+chr(13)
buildstr=buildstr+"Error # "+alltrim(str(xerno))+chr(13)+chr(13)
buildstr=buildstr+"Error Message: "+alltrim(xmsg)+chr(13)+chr(13)
buildstr=buildstr+"Program Line # "+alltrim(str(xline))

strtofile(buildstr,"ERRORLOG.TXT",.f.)


However, the resultant text file did not contain the necessary carriage returns. It just substituted strange characters for the chr(13)'s.

I changed the code to read:

buildstr="Error occured at "+ttoc(datetime())+chr(13)+chr(10)+chr(13)+chr(10)
buildstr=buildstr+"Error # "+alltrim(str(xerno))+chr(13)+chr(10)+chr(13)+chr(10)
buildstr=buildstr+"Error Message: "+alltrim(xmsg)+chr(13)+chr(10)+chr(13)+chr(10)
buildstr=buildstr+"Program Line # "+alltrim(str(xline))

strtofile(buildstr,"ERRORLOG.TXT",.f.)


This change put in a carriage return but still the strange characters appears. I then changed to only use the chr(10)'s but that didn't work either.

What am I doing wrong?