>>>Then LEN() of the returned string is exactly what you want.
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>>LEN() return the total of characters in the string not the size in bytes of the string.
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>Are you dealing with double-byte character sets? If not, these two numbers should be equal, unless I'm mistaken (which is also possible).
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>Note that FGETS() discards the CR-LF combination.

Thanks for the info!
Nick