>Tore,
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>>Yes, but it can't be that slow, my experience is that VFP is extremely fast with this kind of jobs.
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>Thank you for the optimized code. Your solution replaces a substr() and a left() with a single substr(). I can see where that may speed things up if I have to make 1000's or 100's of thousands of fulltrim() calls.
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>I'm going to continue looking at FoxTools and the Win32 API for other solutions as well.
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>Thanks again for your help,
>
>Malcolm

Last suggestion by Herman should work. I suggested the same function as he did in his first reply, so it should be modified to
chrtran(lower(lcOriginalString),chrtran(lower(lcOriginalString),'qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm',""),"")