Unfortunately, the files are too large for a strtran.

>If file is not to big, you can STRTRAN empty dates to nulls.

STRTOFILE( STRTRAN( FILETOSTR("test.txt"), "/  /       :  :", "Null"), "Testnull.txt")

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>>We are using the following command to create the text file for a SQL bulk insert:
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>>Copy To < filename > Delimited With "" With Character "|"
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>>We need to be able to propagate nulls for datetime into the SQL but these are being converted to empty datetimes in the text file.
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>>We can change nulls to a bogus date like {12/31/9999 12:00:00 AM} and reconvert to null once the data is brought into SQL.
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>>Is there a way to preserve the null values as part of the copy to?
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>>TIA