>Hi
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>I'm using these commands to get rid of the double quotes in a text flat file. The code works accept when the file contains more than +/- 2000 records (lines) the vfox session hangs (NOT RESPONDING). Is there a limit or do I need to include in my code a command that tells vfox to wait until the FileToStr command is done? Please help...
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>The command that causes the programto hang is:
>StrToFile(chrtran(FileToStr('c:\tmp\wtbsold.txt'),'"',''),'c:\tmp\wtbsold.txt')
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>Thank you
>
>Irene Grassow

I don't know the answer to this but...
It might be worth creating a variable in a intermediary step between the filetostr and the strtofile
I don't quite know where the file would be stored with the technique you have used, somewhere internally to Foxpro - maybe it's just too much for it to handle.
Try something like

lcStr = FileToStr('c:\tmp\wtbsold.txt')
StrToFile(chrtran(lcStr),'"',''),'c:\tmp\wtbsold.txt')

Foxpro's limits for string handling are pretty huge (on my machine 5,865,500 chars then it GPF's) so unless the file you are reading in is enormous this should work!