and to finish...

Excel is quite capable of writing a DBF file, and you could also record a macro in Excel to automate the process. I don't understand why you need to hire a programmer to convert your TXT file to DBF. If you're gong to hire a progammer, why not have him read the CSV directly?

The reason we are pointing at Excel is the the CSV file is correctly formatted and it is Excel that has the problem when you read the data to change it. Have you changed the version of Excel you are using? If you made the necessary change in Notepad there wouldn't be a problem.

Enjoy the weekend.