Is there a way to export a character string WITHOUT surrounding quotes

[Faelcu]

Is there some way to export a single character string as a record and NOT have the character string surrounded by quote marks?

I have a need to build an export file that will be sent to a mainframe somewhere and they need the data without the quote marks surrounding the character string (record), since this makes the record they're reading longer than they can use.

Any ideas are much appreciated.

 

[harebrain]

Use PUT instead of EXPORT. Just beware that if the record consists of fields, you're responsible for parsing.

 

[Faelcu]

I've already parsed the data into one long character string so the PUT works perfectly. I never thought of it for this application. Thanks very much!