Cetin,

Obviously they fixed it in VFP7, because it works there, a nice improvement for cases like this.

>David,
>To be sure just tried again with exactly these lines :
>

>use employee
>COPY TO dsstemp.txt TYPE DELIMITED WITH "" WITH CHARACTER "~"
>

It errors 'Command contains unrecognized phrase/keyword. If I make it :
>

>COPY TO dsstemp.txt TYPE DELIMITED WITH " " WITH CHARACTER "~"
>

It works inserting a space instead of doublequotes.
>Cetin
>
>>Cetin,
>>
>>Hmmm... I ran this code last night and it worked just fine with no syntax error.
>>
>>>>

>>>>COPY TO dsstemp.txt TYPE DELIMITED WITH "" WITH CHARACTER "~"
>>>>STRTOFILE(STRTRAN(FILETOSTR('dsstemp.txt'), '~', '|^'),'dsstemp.txt')
>>>>MODI FILE dsstemp.txt
>>>>

>>>
>>>David,
>>>During FoxyClasses importer creation I played with this a lot and unfortunately it syntax errors. If you put a space in quotes it works but than extra spaces are inserted.
>>>Cetin