David,

I know about that but I prefer to use new line combination CHR(13)+CHR(10) everywhere in my code so I don't have to remember where alone CHR(13) works and where it doesn't.

>Sergey,
>
>FWIW, chr(13) is enough to get alines() to parse it apart.
>
>

ALINES(laArray, STRTRAN(lc,";", CHR(13)))

>
>>It's right function and it has third parameter in VFP7. In VFP6 you have to convert your delimiter into new line code.

lc = "Primero;Segundo;Tercero;Cuarto;Quinto"
>>
>>ALINES(laArray, STRTRAN(lc,";", CHR(13)+CHR(10)))
>>FOR EACH lcPalabra IN laArray
>>  ?lcPalabra
>>ENDFOR