>>Peter,
>>
>>Why not always add crlf to the last element ?
>>instead of
>>

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

>>do
>>

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

>>then alines() will always return 4
>
>Good idea! It should work in vfp7 (and vfp8) at least. I've asked MS to repair the bug (see my reply to Sergey). I guess many developers use your technique. This makes it allmost or certainly a necessity for the VFPteam to implement the repair with caution.
>
>Thanks!

Peter,

Also if you never write the ending crlf use

alines(Arrayname, expr + crlf)

As an aside, I have written my own routine to deal with those cases where there can be an empty trailing field