Ok, thanks. I forgot that '&&' can be used on left side, always type '*' for this :).

>Don't forget the && too!
>
>Cheers,
>Jim N
>
>>>Hello:
>>>I'm writing a program to count the lines of code in my programs.
>>>I need to be able the count the lines of code without including the comments and blank spaces. Any ideas on how to do this? THis is the code that I'm using that returns the total number of lines including comments.
>>>gnfilehandle = fopen("mainlib.prg")
>>>nsize = fseek(gnfilehandle,0,2)
>>>if nsize <= 0
>>>wait window "this file is empty!" nowait
>>>else
>>>=fseek(gnfilehandle, 0)
>>>lctext = fread(gnfilehandle, nsize)
>>>lnlines = occurs(chr(13), lctext)
>>>? lnlines
>>>endif
>>>
>>>This works and returns total number of lines. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>This strict requirement will force you to analyze each line separately, i.e. you should FOPEN() the file loop through it DO WHILE NOT FEOF() retrieving cString=ALLTRIM(FGETS()). In cString you should filter CASEs when EMPTY((cString)) or LEFT(cString,1)="*" or RIGHT(cString1)=";"