Check out Steve Black's paper on text manilupation. http://www.stevenblack.com/text.html

>i have a text string of multiple short sentences each separated by periods stored in a variable called mesa
>i would like to display the string with each sentence occupying a new line
>if i use
>? mesa
>i get a run-on string
>i would like to use
>? subs(mesa,1,??)
>? subs(mesa,??+1,??) (where ?? is the location of each period)
>
>
>How can i locate and store each of the numerical placements of the periods to build up my substring segments
>or is there a more efficient way to do this.
>
>thanks
>k