>I am trying to create an ascii file from a database for exporting to a Bank as a direct payment.
>
>For our previous bank it was simple, I used ? to output various fields, separated by commas.
>
>With our new bank it is a bit more complicated. The file starts with a 'Descriptive record' which is the first
>line. At byte 121 it needs a carriage return and byte 122 a line feed. How do I tag these onto the end of the line?
>At the moment the line looks like this-
>01NAB YURUGA NURSERY 189989PAYMENT DATA120101 0
>Carriage return needs to go in where the last 0 is.

Ratherh than using ? to produce the output, why not construct the entire exchange as a string with explicit characters in place in the string, and write the string to a file using STRTOFILE()?

Alternatively, a ? Sends a CR/LF pair at the start of the output for the line, so use ?? (or ???) to create the line up to the end, and then issue a ? to add a CR/LF to the end of the line.