Ron,

FWIW, here's an equivalent of ALINES() for VFP5:

LPARAMETERS taArray, tcString, tcDelimiter
LOCAL lcString, lnElements, i, lnPos

lcString   = tcString+tcDelimiter
lnElements = OCCURS(tcDelimiter, lcString)

FOR i = 1 TO lnElements
	lnPos = AT(tcDelimiter, lcString)
	DIMENSION taArray[i]
	taArray[i] = SUBSTR(lcString, 1, lnPos-1)
	lcString = SUBSTR(lcString, lnPos+1)
ENDFOR

RETURN lnElements

HTH
>I need to parse a comma delimited string in VFP 5.0. Since I can't use ALINES() in 5.0, what would be the best way to parse this string.
>
>"111111,222,333"