lcTextFileContents = FILETOSTR( cFileName ) lcNewLineChars = CHR( 13 ) + CHR( 10 ) && the carriage return - line feed (CRLF) combination * To find substrings in lcTextFileContents look at the help file for AT( ) or OCCURS( ) * and the "See Also" related functions * For processing text files line-by-line you may want to look at ALINES( )