Depends on how big your file is. If it's big enough, the array will definitely take longer because VFP will throw an error and stop. ;-)

>>

>>create cursor Dummy (TxtFld C (250))
>>append from TextFile SDF
>>nLines = Reccount()
>>

>
>Alternatively, there's:
>

>lsMyString = filetostr("foxpro.h")
>alines(laMyArray, lsMyString)
>?alen(laMyArray)
>

>
>Beats me which one's faster. I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader. :-)