Hi Jerry,

MLINE() treats the spaces as word delimiters and uses them to determine where to break the line. You could do a chrtran() on the string to convert spaces to something else, and then chrtran() back. For example, if you know there won't be any chr(149)s in the file, you could change the following lines (off the top of my head - I'm not sitting at my development machine to test this)

lcWholeFile = <b>chrtran(</b>filetostr('c:\temp\testline.txt')<b>, ' ', chr(149))</b>
...
fputs(lnOutFile, <b>chrtran(</b>mline(lcWholeFile, 1, _mline)<b>, chr(149), ' ')</b>

Cheers,

Andrew

>Andrew,
>
>This solution worked great, however, our text file contains spaces and this routine doesn't like spaces in the string. Other than that, this worked great.
>
>Any idea why MLINE() doesn't like spaces?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jerryt
>
>
>
>>Don't forget thet VFP has SET MEMOWIDTH - Try something like this:
>>

* create a sample file
>>* with 1000 lines 40 to 119 characters long
>>strtofile('', 'c:\temp\testline.txt')
>>for i = 1 to 1000
>>	strtofile(repl('*', int(rand() * 80) + 40) + chr(13), 'c:\temp\testline.txt', .t.)
>>endfor
>>
>>* read the file into a string
>>local ltStart, ltFileStart, ltFinish
>>ltStart = datetime()
>>lcWholeFile = filetostr('c:\temp\testline.txt')
>>local lnMemoWidth
>>lnMemoWidth = set('memowidth')
>>set memowidth to 80
>>
>>ltFileStart = datetime()
>>_mline = 0
>>*!*	strtofile('', 'c:\temp\testlineout.txt')
>>lnOutFile = fcreate('c:\temp\testlineout.txt')
>>for i = 1 to memlines(lcWholeFile)
>>*!*		strtofile(mline(lcWholeFile, 1, _mline) + chr(13), 'c:\temp\testlineout.txt', .t.)
>>	fputs(lnOutFile, mline(lcWholeFile, 1, _mline))
>>*!*		? mline(lcWholeFile, 1, _mline)
>>endfor
>>fclose(lnOutFile)
>>set memowidth to lnMemowidth
>>ltFinish = datetime()
>>
>>lcMessage = 'Start : ' + tran(ltStart) + chr(13) + 'File Start : ' + tran(ltFileStart) + ' - d1 : ' + tran(ltFileStart - ltStart) + chr(13) + ;
>>	'Finish : ' + tran(ltFinish) + ' - d2 : ' + tran(ltFinish - ltFileStart) + ' - d3 : ' + tran(ltFinish - ltStart)
>>
>>wait wind lcMessage

>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Andrew
>>
>>>Using VFP6 SP4
>>>
>>>Are there any article on string manipulation in VFP6?
>>>
>>>I need to write a generic routine to parse any text file into 80 character lines and output these lines into a new text file, for sending up into a mainframe.
>>>
>>>I am currently grabbing the file with the STRTOFILE() into a memvar then I go through each character 1 character at a time to create this file. I also do some other testing but this is the idea.
>>>
>>>However, this technic seems slow, especially on a large text file.
>>>
>>>Any help would be great.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Jerryt