Hi Rick,

>Uhm, how do you go from char location to line location and back? I don't
>think you can.

Why do you need this? What I meant was something like

  lnLine = ATLINE("World",lcMemo)
  lcLine = MLINE(lcMemo,lnLine)
  IF RAT("World",lcLine) = LEN(lcLine)-Len("World")+1
     * it's the last character
  ENDIF

>Once you find the line and need to go on you can't use ATLINE
>anymore either cause it doesn't have a nOccurance option like AT.

Why? After you used MLINE(), the _MLINE variable is set to the next line, so

SubStr(lcMemo,_MLINE)

gives you the rest of the string. You just continue to search until you can't find anything else.

>I was working on PRG files (as text) that were like 50k or so and it took
>3 minutes to parse out just the function names. MLINE() and ATLINE() both
>are very, very slow on large text strings it appears.

That definitely sounds like you don't use the _MLINE variable with MLINE(). Actually these operation can be quite fast.

Christof