Bill,
I don't know of any "reverse" example, but it shouldn't be too hard to write.

No, your append won't work. First, the syntax isn't quite right - instead try:
Append From (gcDelimFile) Delimited With " With Character ,

Next, as the test code I tried shows, VFP just skips over memo fields in an APPEND.

CREATE TABLE testappend (field1 C(10), Field2 N(10), field3 M, field4 C(250))
modi file testappend.txt
"ABC",1,"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
"DEF",2,"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"

gcDelimFile = "testappend.txt"
Append From (gcDelimFile) Delimited With " With Character ,

Puts nothing into Field3 the 2nd string goes into Field4. I also tried it with:

"ABC",1,"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ", "QQQQ"
"DEF",2,"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ", "ZZZZZ"

And it just ignored that "4th" field.

Rick

>Thanks Rick
>I'll try it. By yhe way, How do you re-construct a vfp table from the resulting .CSV file?
>Will the following work? I have a feeling it will ignore the memo fields when constructing the .DBF.
>
>append from (gcDelimFile)
> delimited with """ with character ','
>
>Bill