>>>I forgot to mention it runs as fast as 68 find & Replace through 130 MB file in just 50 minutes, that is very good.
>>minutes or seconds? If it's running almost an hour, that's not acceptable.
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>The process takes round 40 second / cycle, I have 68 cyles to run ( 68 different find & Replace ), so I think it is good.

In that case, why not pass it a 2 column array with all 68 find and replace strings. Then, rewrite your code something like this:

FOR nCtr = 1 TO 68
   lcBufferOut = STRTRAN(lcBuffer,aStr[nCtr,1],aStr[nCtr,2]) 
ENDFOR

I'll bet that would cut your time down to less than 2 minutes!

Regards,