>>Hi,
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>>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:
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>>cLongString = "some string1chr(254)some string2chr(254)somestring3chr(254)"
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>>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.
>>
>>TIA
>
>Take a look at ALINES() function in Help.
Thank you.
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