Actually, it depends on the platform that produced the file. Typically, text files from DOS/Windows terminate lines with CRLF. UNIX/LINUX text files terminate lines with LF. I haven't looked at Mac text files for several years but they used to termintae lines with a CR.

>>I can't find any chr(10) charaters in my text. I also can't find any chr(10) characters when I sent my string back to a file and edit it with hexedit.
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>>When I run the command in my command window (not in my program), the charachters are replaced. Run-time it doesn't work.
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>>Why?
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>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).
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>good luck
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>>Sander