>>>Thanks - fgets() seems to be the way to go. How would I get it to read each line in a file to a variable? I mean a text file isn't a table and I won't be able to do a Do While !eof() skip Enddo type situation on each line...
>>Hi John
>>Why not
>>

>>CLEAR
>>lcTxtFile = GETFILE([txt],[Your txt])
>>IF NOT EMPTY(lcTxtFile)
>>   ALINES(myarr,FILETOSTR(lcTxtFile))
>>   DISPLAY MEMORY LIKE myarr
>>ENDIF
>>

>
>:-)
>Because all depends how big is the file and what version of VFP John used.

Without testing I would bet it would be the slowest solution for big files. Actually, it would be nice to compare 3 offered solutions and know for sure which one is the quickest.