Yes, this may be better then ALINES solution


>The behavior you describe is the designed behavior -- not what I wanted either. In the case of a delimited string such as
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>lcString = "test1|test2||test4"
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>I would want the third word to be empty; however, GETWORDNUM() returns test4 as the third word and GETWORDNUM() returns 3, instead of 4. If you do a string translation first and insert a space in a null place:
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>lcString = "test1|test2||test4"
>DO WHILE ATC("||", lcString) > 0
>   lcString = STRTRAN(lcString, "||", , "| |")
>ENDDO
>lcThird = GETWORDNUM(lcString, 3, "|")
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>Now you will get the results that you expect.