>
>I was thinking a hybrid.
>

IF OCCURS(",", tcText) > 40
>    * Use alines() solution
>ELSE
>    * Use getwordnum() solution
>ENDIF

I don't want to go into a discussion but I would prefer Alines() in all cases (otherwise if string length is not over 256 the fastest option would be to use a combobox - I don't think you would want to do a selective routine for that).