>Hi Dan
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>It's not me that needs some help.
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>You told Timothy Bowen to ...
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>>>>Can you issue a select prior to the copy to which pads out your character fields with '+'.
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>and in another message, I had given him a SQL to do exactly what you suggested. Except, that he tried to run my posted code and because I typed it faster than I should have, he said "VFP didn't like it" -- which is funny cause that's even more vague than "Syntax Error".
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>So when I say your post I thought, I should not have posted code. I should have written the suggestion in English as you did, and then Timothy would not be trying to run anything. See?

Gotcha. You just reversed the parameters 2 & 3.