I'm using an api call into an application I support that returns a group of records represented as a string, with a CHR(13) between each field and a CHR(10) at the end of each field. I've been parsing them by hand, but Tamar's presentation at GLGDW got me to looking and there it was; ALINES. Does exactly what I need except that if the field is empty in the sending app, I get two chr(13) next to each other and ALINES sees it as a single line.

Has anybody else run into this, and if so do you know of a way to work around it? I'd like to use ALINES and then APPEND FROM ARRAY. Should cut my processing time significantly, if I can get it to work.

Thanks,

Tom Finn