Mahmmod:

> I want to count the number of fields there are in a delimited text file.

1. Use FGETS to read a line (first occurence of a Chr(13).
2. Parse your line and strip everything between double-quotes (you don't
   want to count the commas included in these fields)

   lcLine = < your line >
   lcStripped = 
   lnComma = 0
   For x = 1 To len(lcLine)
      cChar = Substr(lcLine, x, 1)
      If cChar = '""' Then
         If lnComma = 0
            lnComma = 1     && the start to read a character field
         Else 
            lnComma = 0     && the end of a character field.
         EndIf
      Else
         If lnComma = 0
            *-- Note that you do nothing if lnComma = 1 because you
            *-- are reading a character field.
            lcStripped = lcStripped + cChar
         EndIf
      EndIf
   EndFor      

3. The number of fields is:
     OCCURS(",", lcStripped) + 1

Daniel