>>You're wrong, not the same way. I think you misunderstand what's meant by multiple delimiters.

lcstring = "text1,text2:text3;text4"
>>? Words(lcstring, ",;:")

STRTRAN() won't do that.
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>Well, now I see.
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>Anyway, my function would not work for this case:
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>"text1,,text2,text3,text4,text5" - should return 5 elements, but will return 6.

What using these functions allowed me to do easily was to create a simple program that would load an array from a string regardless of the delimeters or their nature. While this probably could be done with macro substitution, using the library seemed far more simple and direct.

>FoxTools club - how can you accept new members? :)

< s >One rule. You must SET LIBRARY TO FOXTOOLS early in the main program of all your systems.