>Does anybody have an alternative to the foxtools reduce() function that will handle long strings (100K or more in length)? Thanks.


Not as fast as C++ but you can use this:

FUNCTION Reduce(cString, cReplace)

IF PCOUNT() > 1
   cString = CHRTRAN(cString, cReplace, SPACE(LEN(cReplace)))
ENDIF

DO WHILE "  " $ cString
   cString = STRTRAN(cString, "  ", " ")
ENDDO

RETURN cString