Thank you all for sharing your wisdom.

Actually this resolved many coding programs I have encountered. When parsing, say code, the line may begin with white spaces (including Tags characters). GetWordNum() ignores these white spaces and returns the first word. This simplifies coding greatly.

It make me stand-back and consider what other misconceptions I need to unlearn.

>Hi All,
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>After nearly an hour of screaming, I discovered the source to a recent issue.
>There is a bug in GetWordNum(). If the string being searched begins with the delimiter, and you are requesting the first word, the function will return the Second word in the list.
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>? GetWordNum( "1,2,3", 1, ",")                     && returns "1"
>? GetWordNum( ",2,3", 1, ",")                       && returns "2"
>? GetWordNum( ",,3", 1, ",")                         && returns "3"
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