I think - but I don't have VFP with me right now - that APPEND MEMO would append the text file into the memo.
Also, if you need to do some additional processing, you can FileToStr() into a variable, do any requried manipulation with the text variable, and then just use REPLACE to put the result into the memo.
FileToStr() is available in VFP 6 or later; for earlier versions, there are UDFs that emulate it.
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>I have this text file with chapters in it going from chapter 1 to 25. I need to put this text file into a table. The fields i am using are chapter is numeric and the text part mneed to go into a memo field. Could some help me out with some code to work from..
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