I have used STRTOFile() in the past with good success on up to 5000+ records of 133 chars each. The low-level file functions would also be an alternative.

Richard


>I need to create an ascii file. The data for the ascii file is contained in a number of tables as follows.
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>*Header line - info comes from policy master file table
>*next line is policy information for policy identified in header record - info comes from policy detail table
>*next line is location information for policy identified in header - info from policy location table
>In all there are about 7 different lines of information associated with the header line. Then another header record for another policy and all the associated detail and so on until all policies are reported.
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>I have considered using "Text - Endtext" and "copy to xxxx sdf" to create the ascii file with my preference being "text-endtext".
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>Before I start, I was wondering if anyone had any other suggestion that I should consider.
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>Thanks in advance.
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>Each line in the file has a different format