>I have this .txt file with 5 columns of info, it is delimited with blanks, each record is something like this:
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>"NA048032 <20 spaces> 040502010100 <15 spaces> 000800 <20 Spaces> A05075300 <5 spaces> 00DIN"
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>when using:
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>APPEND FROM file.txt DELIMITED WITH BLANK
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>I need to have a table with enough columns for every space in the record!!!
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>Question: How can i ignore those nasty spaces?

If the fields do not contain any spaces then using CHRTRAN() to eliminate them and then a straight append TYPE SDF will work.

lcoldtext = FILETOSTR("oldtext.txt")
= STRTOFILE(CHRTRAN(lcoldtext, SPACE(1), ""), "newtext.txt")
APPEND FROM newtext.txt TYPE SDF