CLEAR CREATE cursor Test (longString W) APPEND BLANK REPLACE longString WITH REPLICATE('aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa',1000000) SCATTER MEMVAR memo t1=SECONDS() FOR k=1 TO 50 =len(longString) NEXT ? "len(longString) =",SECONDS()-t1 t1=SECONDS() FOR k=1 TO 50 =len(Test.longString) NEXT ? "len(longString) =",SECONDS()-t1 t1=SECONDS() FOR k=1 TO 50 =len(m.longString) NEXT ? "len(m.longString) =",SECONDS()-t1 t1=SECONDS() FOR k=1 TO 50 =VARTYPE(longString) NEXT ? "VARTYPE(longString) =",SECONDS()-t1 t1=SECONDS() FOR k=1 TO 50 =VARTYPE(Test.longString) NEXT ? "VARTYPE(longString) =",SECONDS()-t1 t1=SECONDS() FOR k=1 TO 50 =VARTYPE(m.longString) NEXT ? "VARTYPE(m.longString) =",SECONDS()-t1