Scott, is the need for a double pipe because your data may contain a pipe?  If so, you can export all as one field and use a more obscure character, like a caret ^<br><br>declare local delim(1,*) <br><br>delim=chr(&quot;94&quot;)<br>
<br>export ascii out = (filename) r=\n f=\t<br><br>out(1)=field(1){delim{field(2){delim{field(3){delim{field(4)............<br><br>write out<br><br>This will make filePro see it as one exported field per record but you tell your import program, Excel in your case to use the ^ as the delimiter.<br>
<br>Ian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Scott Walker <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ScottWalker@ramsystemscorp.com" target="_blank">ScottWalker@ramsystemscorp.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Brian,<br>
<br>
Thanks.  You know what.  I just tested excel and it does not let you specify<br>
(2) characters as a field separator so I guess I&#39;m stuck using one.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Scott<br>
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</div><div><div>&gt; This should work:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; export ascii alias = name r=\n o=| c=|<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; But I haven&#39;t tried it.<br>
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&gt; &gt; I&#39;m doing an export ascii.<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; Is there an easy way to use two characters as the field separator.<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; Specifically I&#39;m trying to use two pipe symbols as the field separator.<br>
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