>Hi,
>
>I was wondering if there is a function or feature in VFP 9 that would allow me to extract sub-strings from a string, delimited by some character.
>For example, say my delimiter is chr(254) and I have the following string:
>
>cLongString = "some string1chr(254)some string2chr(254)somestring3chr(254)"
>
>I know how to parse the long string using ATCC() and SUBSTR() with a DO WHILE. But I was wondering if there is a more efficient way to get the sub-strings in an array or a cursor or just one sub-string at a time.

Check the additional parameters to aLines() function, you can have your own separator characters.