Thanks for the reply. I am hoping to get VFP to work as advertised. But if I have to I will adjust using work arounds. Thanks again.

>>I cant change the ALINE to an Mline as I am not running it against a memo field. I >need to separate a character string into separate parts. E.g:
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>MLine() is not limited to memo fields. See a sample in my reply to Martin.
>
>>lnRtn = ALINES(ArrLotNo,lcLotNums,.T.,',',';',' AND ','&')
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>You may run the following code before using the MLine() function:
>

>   lcLotNums=Chrtran(m.lcLotNums,',;&',Chr(13)+Chr(13)+Chr(13))
>   lcLotNums=Strtran(m.lcLotNums,' AND ',Chr(13))
>

>
>Ben