>Thanks, I think I figured it out -
>x=filetostr(database.fpt)
>= alines(myarr,x,1,chr(1))
>
>VFP is wonderful. There are almost 1 million lines in the fpt file and this parses itself out in less than 30 seconds.

Are you sure that gives you what you want? The final parameters specify the end-of-line sequence. Your original post said the sequence occurs at the begining. IAC I'd use CHR(1),CHR(0),CHR(0) for the parse character sequence.