>I am trying to copy a table to a text file delimited with with a ~ but without the quotes.
>copy fields ... to filename delim with chara "~" gives me this:
>"123"~"charge"~"113"
>
>I need 123~charge~113
>
>Thanks for any help,
>Eric

See FAQ#8016 for VFP 6 and earlier. In VFP 7 just use

COPY TO mytxt.txt DELIMITED WITH "" WITH CHARACTER "~"