>And the little known fact about the _mline system variable, which keeps the beginning of the next line (as a byte offset). So while
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for i=1 to memlines(c)
>   ?mline(c,i)
>endfor

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>might work fine, this would be much better (or at least faster):
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_mline=1
>for i=1 to memlines(c)
>   ?mline(c, 1, _mline)
>endfor

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>because in the latter case Fox knows exactly where to start and doesn't count lines until the ith. Try with a huge string and you'll notice the difference.

Another thing to remember is SET MEMOWIDTH TO (default 50). It affects memlines(), mline(), e.t.c. but not ALINES().