Hi Ger,
If it is only the very first char , not the first in each line then
lcFile = 'YourFile'
STRTOFILE(SUBSTR(FILETOSTR(lcFile),2),lcFile)
Agnes
Update:
You need VFP 7.0 or higher to do that.
>Hi,
>
>I need to open a text file, delete the first character which is a ? and then
>close the file again. Is there an easy way to do this?
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