Yup, there sure is.. you can use the ubound() function to return the largest available subscript (nth index) of an array ...

code:

break on

$line="aaa bbb ccc ddd"

$record=split($line," ",-1)

$nthfield=$record[ubound($record)]

?"nthfield=$nthfield"

exit

Shawn.

[This message has been edited by Shawn (edited 19 April 2001).]