>>You're right of course. The reason why it doesn't show with CHRTRAN() is that the "|" character is only replaced with CHR(13).
>
>Why is it that a chr(13) only shows the line after the cr?
>
>

?  "abc" + Chr(13) + "123"
>** displays
>123
>
>?  "abc" + Chr(10) + "123"
>** displays
>abc
>123
>
>?  "abc" + Chr(13) + "123" + Chr(13) + "efg"
>** displays
>efg &&and some wierd char
>
>?  "abc" + Chr(10) + "123" + Chr(10) + "efg"
>** displays
>abc
>123
>efg
>

>>
>>>>you don't see the result on the screen with the ? command.
>>>
>>>How come? It shows on screen if you use strtran?

I think that has something to do with the fact the chr(13) does a carridge return ie put the cursor at the beginning of the line (ready to overwrite) while it the chr(10) line feed that actually advances the cursor to the next line.