>>I was afraid this would be my result... C'est la vie!
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>>Yup, VFP3 has STRTRAN(), but not ALINES(). No sweat. Personally, I would have liked it if the ...WITH DELIMITER... part worked.
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>>Thanks.
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>Oh well, my quick idea was to read a line, use STRTRAN() to change "|" to chr(13), then use ALINES() to get an array.
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>Unless someone else has a bright idea, it looks like it may take a few more lines of code.

You can always use OCCURS() and do a loop...

Or you can write a C fll :)