Why wouldn't he be happy if it gets the job done and is done so quickly that there's no chance that the "tilded" report will get used accidently? :-)

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>Thanks for the reply. Yes, I agree, that's easy (especially, it was my first quick idea to work around), but being a purist, I want to investigate other possibilities as well :) Besides, my manager was not 100% happy, when I expressed this idea to him :)
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>>Hi Nadya,
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>>I would think, with STRTRAN, FILETOSTR, and STRTOFILE that your problem is resolved with just three lines of code after the ASCII report has been generated, assuming you use the tilde.
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>>>Hi everyone,
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>>>I'm working on quite complicated report. This Report should contain chr(9) tab at some places. I tried Field1+chr(9)+Field2 as Report expression. It works fine in Report Preview, but it doesn't work in ASCII File. It produces really wird result instead.
>>>So, my question is:
>>>Is it possible to insert an ASCII characters in VFP report writer, particulary, CHR(9) (Tab) The program, which works with this output file expects a Tab at some place, then it knows, what to do with it.
>>>As a work around I can think off, is to create a report with, say, tilda, then ran a special program, which would replace tilda ~ with chr(9). This would work, but I just want to ask you, if it could be done in Report Writer directly?
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>>>Thanks a lot in advance.