>now i know that foxpro defaults all characters to be delimited by commas and
>the actual value surrounded by quotes. however, since the numeric values never
>get surrounded by quotes, does anyone know how to accomplish this?

In addition to Sergey's answer, you could build a string using TRANSFORM and PADL/PADR, and then use STRTOFILE() to output it. See MSKB#277725 for an example of how you might go about doing this.