alines() is simpler and, if you believe the Microsoft documentation, should be faster...
>>alines() would work even faster..
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>I doubt it. mline() should work slowly if you ask, say, for mline(1000), since it has to find the 1000th. carriage return.
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>But if I pass it the starting position with _mline (the recommended approach), the situation is quite different.
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>However, alines() might be simpler to use.
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>Hilmar.