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>>It depends on how to count lines. According to help, the cParseChar parameter (by deault it's CHR(13),CHR(10) and there combinations ) "specifies one or more character strings that terminate the elements in cExpression". In your example

lcC = "a" + ccCRLF + "b" + ccCRLF + "c" + ccCRLF + ""

>there's only three ccCRLF which terminates three elements and there's nothing after the last ccCRLF.
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>Hmm, I understand what you're saying. One reply: You use the word 'terminate'. However, this word in the definition would cause all text after the last delimiter to be not copied. The documentation uses the word 'delimit' and that's what you obviously really mean.
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>Thanks for the explanation of the MS-view. :)

Hi Peter,

I quoted VFP8 help which uses word 'terminate'. The difference I see between 'terminate' and 'delimit' that 'terminate' tells only that previous element ended. The word 'delimit' on other hand indicates that one item ended and other begins.