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>George, I think we got the third member of Foxtools Forever & Dark Beer Club.
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Pass the Guinness gentlemen :-) And don't forget "Feral Faced" in that club description, LOL.

>Another thing Words() and WordNum() never liked was the use of memo fields; they had to be converted into strings, even like this: Words(""+the_memo). As for the 256 chars limit, I've always used MLine() to chop long strings. Anyway, counting words in a long strings will probably slow things down, so I preferred chopping 'em regardless of limitation. Good thing about MLine() is that it remembers the end of last line found in the _mline system variable, so for the next line a simple MLine(the_memo, 1, _mline) looks for the next line from _mline offset, which is quick as a fox :).

Mline() - yep, that's fast. I'll test it out on my parser for speed. It works on ordinary strings too, doesn't it?