>i have a string "the;agency;auditor" stored in a variable. i want to be able to print this string in 3 lines, ";" indicates that the next word is printed in the next line.
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>the
>agency
>auditor
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>how will i be able to do this? pls help.

Use ALINES() to break up the string. In VFP 6, you'll have to change the ";" to returns first:

cNewString = STRTRAN(cString, ";", CHR(13))
nCount = ALINES(aStrings, cNewString)

In VFP 7 and later, you can specify the separator right in ALINES():

nCount = ALINES(aStrings, cString, ";")

Tamar