Is there any way possible to have Filemaker export an actual carriage return within a single record. Am I spinning my wheels on the utterly impossible? Do I need to throw in the towel and make a Perl script do this for me?

Off the top of my head, you could probably paste a carriage return into a global field and then concatenate the global with a field in your record.

HTH, Mike

Problem is, carriage returns do not export from FileMaker. They are converted to tab-returns or something. FileMaker seems to only use a true carriage return as a record delimiator.

You may require the use of a plugin like troi file which can manipulate an external file

www.troi.com

Wow! The file plug-in worked fairly well. Now to convince the powers that be to purchase some licenses.

Does anyone know off-hand what the ASCII value of the character spit out by FileMaker when a paragraph or carriage return is specified. (It shows up as the little box)

It's a vertical tab (ascii 11)