>Hi George.
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>>> Naturally, JUSTSTEM() returns the table alias too. <<
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>< LOL > I sorta fingured that one out on my own < g >. My ability to recognize the obvious is phenomenal.
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>>> Another use them is parsing a key string in a treeview. Usually, these keys are separated with backslashes like directories. To see an example of this, try either JUSTFNAME(SYS(2003)) or JUSTPATH(SYS(2003)). <<
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>Well, in my book, anything that simplifies parsing (which, at the best of times, is a real PITA) is a very cool tool.

One of the tricks is to chop a string into pieces, like this:

for i=1 to words(LongString, '\')
   chop=wordnum(LongString, i, '\')
   thisform.DoSomethingWithThe(chop)
endfor

Of course, you may use any other character to be a separator, so words() and wordnum() are the best parsing tools I've found so far.