- get the string from the file
- replace spaces with "+" in the string
- write file from the string.

Sure replacing spaces with "+" may not work as you wish if there are spaces between words in the field.
In this case you need to get the line from each record one by one, format the string as needed and write it to the file.

>not sure how to interpret exactly your suggestion,can you illucidate a bit further? thanks
>
>>I would use this:
>>
>>copy ... to (filename)....
>>
>>=strtofile(chrtran(filetostr(filename)," ","+"),filename)
>>
>>>That was the one I didn't try, I was almost out of choices!
>>>PS, what if I wanted output to look like:
>>>811AD,SUDBURY++++++++,B021193
>>>note the '+' being spaces.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Try:
>>>>COPY .. to .. delim with ""
>>>>
>>>>>I have the below data in a table acct(5), location(15),label(5)and I want to create the txt file shown below. Do I use copy to output type sdf, delimited, delimited with ",", not having too much luck creating what I want.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>"output.txt" =
>>>>>811AD,SUDBURY ,B021193
>>>>>811AD,SUDBURY ,B020910
>>>>>811AD,SUDBURY ,B022401
>>>>>811AD,SUDBURY ,B023021
>>>>>811AD,SUDBURY ,B023207
>>>>>811AD,SUDBURY ,B024342
>>>>>811AD,SUDBURY ,B024341
>>>>>811AD,SUDBURY ,B024382
>>>>>811AD,SUDBURY ,B024351
>>>>>811AD,SUDBURY ,B024352
>>>>>811AD,SUDBURY ,B020809
>>>>>811AD,SUDBURY ,B021653
>>>>>811AD,SUDBURY ,B023958