I ended up setting up defaults in SQL. It removes the need to do something like a pre and post conversion or low level operations.

Thanks all for the suggestions.

>FWIW, Try low level "COPY TO" as in fopen/fread/fput-fwrite you have full control then.
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>>I'm using the following syntax:
>>Copy To ( < file name > ) FIELDS < FieldList > Delimited With "" With Character "|".
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>>If the field is 1 character in length it seems to preserve that space but any field greater than one character strips all the spaces and I end up with a NULL when trying to Bulk Insert info SQL Server.
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>>I can't use fixed length. I have to use a delimiter.
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>>Is there a work around for this problem?