>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?
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>Chris.

Just a quick thought (ie not completly thought through)

How about this:

RAND()
lcText = FILETOSTR("myFile.txt")
ALINES(myText, lcText)
?myText[RAND()*ALEN(myText)]