This example looks the fastest way to load a text file into a string array in PlayBasic V1.62 and bellow. It includes two versions of the Loader function. The first reads the data to memory then manually grabs cuts and pastes this into the individual strings, the second read strings and throws them into the array directly. While the latter is less code, it's also dramatically slower! Around 50 times slower in fact. So if you need to load a text file into a string array, i'd recommend using the first version !