Dick,

This is a truly annoying bug, it's related to the interaction of MEMOWIDTH and textmerge and long strings. VFP is inserting a CRLF pair into the middle of your memo as it outputs it. I ran into this bug in the code that generates my website articles from the dbf datastore. The workaround I use is a function that writes the memo out in smaller chunks. I have memowidth set to something bigger than the 512 used in the code below.

* We need to chunk this out a little at a time here because otherwise just printing
* it as a memo SET MEMOWIDTH causes CRLF pairs to be inserted into the stream every
* MEMOWIDTH characters!

for i = 1 to len( lcData ) step 512
   \\<<substr( lcData, i, 512 )>>
endfor

>I am getting inconsistent wordwrapping when textmerging from a memo field to a text file. The memo contains the formletter text with the appropriate embedded memvars. Memvars are created prior to running the textmerge. The the that is created is perfect in every way except for the formatting.
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>The program is not ignoring the memowidth parameter because if I reduce it, the length of each line of text outputted is less.
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>If I have memowidth set to 80, there will always be some lines that end at about 45 characters and the first few words of the next line could have easily fit at the end of this line. It only happens when the line contains a <>, lines that are purely text with no variables wrap just fine.
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>All text variables are alltrim()'d.
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>Has anyone seen this before? Any suggestions?

df (was a 10 time MVP)

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