>>>Zakaria,
>>>
>>>What you need to do first is to reduce the length of the sentence:
>>> remove characters and strings like ";" , " as ", chr(13), etc. Make it as a plain string.
>>>
>>>Something like this:
>>>

>>>lc1=STRTRAN(cVelden,CHR(13)+CHR(10),"")
>>>lc1=STRTRAN(lc1," as "," ")
>>>lc1=chrtran(lc1,";","")
>>>lc1=chrtran(lc1,CHR(9)," ")
>>>DO WHILE SPACE(2)$lc1
>>> lc1=STRTRAN(lc1,SPACE(2)," ")
>>>enddo
>>>
>>>*The length of your statement will be greatly reduced, and you will be able to apply:
>>>
>>>SELECT &lc1. from your_table
>>>

>>
>>Still 7118 bytes :-)
>
>?len(lc1) && I got 6168

:o)
Sorry,
My messagebox with LEN() was with old variable in it, not with converted one. 6168 it is.