Not quite clear why expected value is 3*recc(). Depends on what do you have in the report form 'test'.

>Report used in the followng code is available at
>www.eetasoft.ee/reporttoascii.zip
>This is very simple report containing only three fields
>having plenty of empty space.
>
>To reproduce, run the following program:
>

>CREATE TABLE test ( f1 c(1), F2 C(1), F3 C(1) )
>APPEND BLANK
>
>FOR i=1 TO 20
>  COPY TO t
>  APPEND FROM t
>  ENDFOR
>
>REPLACE ALL f1 WITH TRANSFORM(RECNO()%10), ;
>     f2 WITH TRANSFORM((RECNO()+1)%10), ;
>   f3 WITH TRANSFORM( (RECNO()+2)%10)
>
>REPORT FORM test TO FILE test ASCII
>CREATE TABLE test1 ( f1 c(10) )
>APPEND FROM test.txt SDF FOR !EMPTY(F1)
>
>MESSAGEBOX( 'Expected '+TRANSFORM(3*RECCOUNT('test')) + CHR(13)+ ;
>   'Actual ' +TRANSFORM(RECCOUNT('test1')) )
>

>
>Observed result:
>
>Expected: 3145728
>Actual: 2752428
>
>
>Expected result:
>
>numbers in message box must be same.
>
>
>Is it possible to fix this problem so that data loss does not occur ?