Hi Fred,

The reason why you are getting only a single character is because the lcString is declared as a Char datatype. Change it to

Dim lcString As String

and it will resolve the problem.

hth,
Kamal

>I am reading a text file named Config.ini. In this text file is a single line with a word on it PUEM. When I read the file with either the FREAD() of FILTTOSTR() in VFPToolKitNET, I only get the first letter.
>
>DIM lcstring as Char
>lcstring = " "
>lcstring = FileToStr("..\Config.ini")
>
>MessageBox(lcstring)
>
>The messagebox only has the first letter of the first word in the first line.