Hi Jim

>Is your test data roughly the same as what's failing in runtime?... I'm thnking specifically here of the length of the entire string being examined.
>Also, it is most 'standard', per my own observations, that a "CR" is typically a "LF+CR", commonly CHR(13)+CHR(10).

You made me have to go look it up, but CHR(13) is CR and CHR(10) is LF.