>Yes, that's a 'funny' finding. The VFP7 help says: The default delimiters are space, tab, and carriage return.
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>The VFP9 help says: The default delimiters are space, tab, carriage return, and line feed.
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>The Hacker's guide for VFP7 says: Words are separated by space, tab (CHR(9)) and linefeed (CHR(10)).
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>It appears that the Hacker's Guide is the only one that is right. Perhaps someone got instructions to repair the documentation error. Instead of replacing 'carriage return' by 'line feed' this person has added 'and line feed'.

You're right. Carriage Return seems to not be the delimiter. Interesting finding.

? asc( right( getwordnum("huppel de puppel" + chr(13)+chr(10), 3 ),1 ) )
? asc( right( getwordnum("huppel de puppel" + chr(10), 3 ),1 ) )