I wrote some software for a car club. We exported their legacy data to a CSV file and then imported that CSV file into DataFlex. Now, when we run reports to a CSV file, some of the data gets “shifted” — I think the issue is a “carriage return” ASCII character, which is invisible to the user when looking at the screen, but is obvious when viewing the data in Microsoft Excel.

it may not be carriage return. It may be some other strange ASCII character...

Is there a way to search the database and destroy these crazy ASCII characters?