>Hi,
>
>I have a huge text file, could exceed 130 MB and I would like to search for specific string in this file and replae it with other string.
>EX. find "AD00" and replace it with "BR77".
>
>any ideas how can I do that in VFP

If you can load the file with FILETOSTR(), you could then use the Regular Expression Parser (if not (STRTRAN()), to make the changes.

See the VFUG newsletter (www.vfug.org), January 2003 (I think) for the last in the series of articles on the Windows Script Host that I wrote with the late (great) Ed Rauh.