>If I try the following expression in the debugger, I get a count of 2.
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>GETWORDCOUNT(";wordone;wordtwo;", ";")
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>I was hoping to get a count of 4 where the first and last words are empty strings.
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>GETWORDNUM(";wordone;wordtwo;",1, ";") returns "wordone" and not "".
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>Was I expecting too much from these functions?
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>Mike

x="1;wordone;wordtwo;"
?STREXTRACT(x,"",";",1,3)
prints 1
what you want

Peter