Thanks. This gives me a place to start...unfortunately I'm still in 6.0, but will keep trying.
Becky

>See Re: Copy to COMMA DELIMTED but no quotes around char Message #609218.
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>>I have a dbf of about 80,000 500-byte records that needs to be written out to an ASCII text file for upload to another system. They want it comma delimited WITHOUT the quotes on text fields. When I do the COPY TO DELIMITED, I get the quotes around the fields.
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>>I have tried the strtofile function below which works on smaller files but on one this large, I get an out of memory error.
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>>Is there some way to parse the file and do it a little at a time? Or is there a better way to get an ASCII file.
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>>Thanks for any help you can give me.....here's what I tried:
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>>llReturn=strtofile(strtran(filetostr(lctempfilename),["],''),lcnewFileName)
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>>Becky