Hilmar,
I'm sorry that my post was against your rules but it's actual working code that person can use right away. Yes, I've 2.6 version of Filetostr and Strtofile but I don't see a reason to rewrite working code.

>>In VFP 6 it can be done in a few lines of code

lcData = Filetostr("Myfile.csv")
>>IF ASC(RIGHT(lcData,1)) = 26    && make sure that its CTRL+Z
>>  = Strtofile(LEFT(lcData, LEN(lcData)-1), "Myfile.csv")
>>ENDIF

>
>Sergey,
>
>Instead of posting or using two different versions of a program, one with, one without, FileToStr() or StrToFile(), I suggest to always use FileToStr() and StrToFile(), even in older versions of VFP. These functions are so extremely handy that it is worthwhile to define them as UDFs in older versions - in fact, I wonder why I didn't create something similar before the advent of VFP6!