Alines is certainly better because speed (for strings as that using for ex filetostr(from a big file ) or so until max=16.7 Mo (or more in certains cases)).
for this small string the speed has no consequence.
thank for the link
There is also one from steven Black (strings) :http://stevenblack.com/articles/text-and-string-handling-in-VFP/

Merci madame !