Sergy,
thanks, it worked! This is the first time I have ever seen a difference between the single and double quotes. I had not tried the double quote assuming it would be the same result.
John.


>No space.

copy to o:\apinvcln.txt deli with ""  with tab

>>I can't seem to get the copy to delimeted to export a VFP table without some kind of marker on each side of each field. Currently I am using this command:
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>>copy to o:\apinvcln.txt deli with ' ' (1 space) with tab.
>>
>>This works ok but encloses each field with spaces. If I use the empty '' I get the ' on each side of the field.
>>I tried BLANK in place of the space but I get a syntax error.
>>