Thanks for the advise, I came up with this, do you see any problems with it?

lcStr=filetostr('mytext.txt')
lnCut= rat(chr(13),lcStr)
lcClip=left(lcStr,(lnCut-1))
lnPos = rat(chr(10),lcClip)
lcFinalStr=substr(lcClip, lnPos-1)
? lcFinalStr