>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
Assuming you have some characters in a variable SomeChar, you could find out what the ASCII code for the 5th character is by:
?ASC(SUBSTR(SomeChar,5,1))
As Craig suggests, it may not be CHR(0).