>>Yes, in fact I'm using the strtran already, actually chr(13) is enough. But I would prefer to have the extra parameter.
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>Well, if chr(13) is enough, you can do CHRTRAN() instead, it would probably be faster in this case.

And I can't really say the adding of a parameter is going to be faster, because I don't know how much the change to ALINES is going to affect performance. < s >

The hacker's guide is suggesting the use of SYS(15) if you are replacing more than a few characters.