>Nadya,
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>I've never found a problem with speed with the library. I'm not saying one doesn't exist, just that's it's not been my experience. Further, as I noted to Russell, this functionality will be in VFP 7.0 so, under the circumstances, there's no reason for me to change my recommendation. Thanks for the input, though.

I've been testing this stuff in VFP 7. As of beta 1, the ALINES() solution is still an order of magnitude faster then the built-in word functions for large strings.

Tamar