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Asked: 2026-06-02T19:05:24+00:00

In making a file with MS Access to be used with QuickBooks IIF, I

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In making a file with MS Access to be used with QuickBooks IIF, I need a tab delimited file, with no white spaces in between the identifiers. I have this output file opening and all goes into the file, but with spaces on either side of the strings. Below is what I started with:

Print #1, "!TRNS", vbTab, "TRNSID", vbTab, "TRNSTYPE", vbTab, "DATE" 'etc...

and I modified it to:

Print #1, "!TRNS", vbTab, Trim(strTRNSID), vbTab, Trim("TRNSTYPE"), vbTab, "DATE" 'etc...

The spaces are not eliminated in the output file file with the trim function; so I mean the strings that are sent with tabs still have spaces on either side of the strings.

How do I get rid of those spaces?

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  1. Editorial Team

    How about concatenating the strings before you pass them to the Print command?

    Print #1, "!TRNS" & vbTab & Trim(strTRNSID) & vbTab & Trim("TRNSTYPE") & vbTab & "DATE"

    You’ll need to make sure each item is converted to a string, but otherwise that should be OK I think

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