>thanx Dore
>
>trying it did not cause any errors. i used strtran() to try and get rid of many little block shaped characters chr(0), but they still remain when i re-open the txt file with wordpad. any ideas on how i can get rid of them?
>tia
>john


The little blocks may not necessarily be CHR(0), but are characters that display that way in the font you selected.