>I've done this:
>

>x=repl("a", 288)+' '+repl("b", 288)+' '+repl("c", 288)
>?words(x)
>(returns 3 just like it should)
>y=wordnum(x,2)
>?len(y)
>

>And it returned 255 on me. George, do we have this documented somewhere?

You're right, Dragan. There appears to be a 255 character limit on the strings. No, I haven't documented this, but it looks like I should. I'll try to update the help file sometime between now and Monday. Does that sound OK?