>I did use alines, and it works fine 95% of the time. Its the 5% of the
>time that is killing me. For some reason about every 20th record it loses
>a field or two. I don't know if it is because each record has so many fields
>in it (1435). Here the code using Alines().
>

>DIMENSION aAr(1435)
>vcStr = FGETS(nHandle, 8192)
>vnRecCnt = ALINES(aAr, CHRTRAN(CHRTRAN(vcStr, ["], ""), ",", CHR(13)))
>

>This will work but then it just messes up after so many records?? Plus ALines()
>makes every element a string, so u have to use VAL() to store it as a numeric.

What I found when I was trying to do similar, using chrtran replaces ,, with 2 newlines, which alines ignores - hence my suggestion of strtran to insert the additional space.

Is it possible to create the table with the correct type fields & use APPEND FROM ?