>I was asked for help with a toy project - read in a plaintext file and return a random line from the file. I could do this easily with a table, but don't know enough about low level file functions to do that job easily. Can I get a kick in the right direction, please?

Hi Chris,

If the file has less than 65000 record (VFP array limit befor VFP9), you can use FILETOSTR() and ALINES(). Otherwise you'll have to use FOPEN(), FGET() and FCLOSE().