>>Test string manipulation of 5 verses 6. VFP 6 is supposed to be hundreds of times faster. I also learned something from George Goley's session at TechEd, relative to string manipulation. Instead of scanning through a table and doing
>>lcstring=lcstring+thisfield, let Fox do it's thing with copy to .... It is so much faster, it's off the scale.
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>John, am I missing something? How can 'Copy to' be used to produce the same effect as lcString = lcstring+thisfield does inside a SCAN?
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>TIA
>Barbara

Sorry about that, it was primarily in the case of building files low level. As I recall it had more to do with fwrite(fhandle,fname+' '+lname) versus copy fname+lname to test.txt type sdf. The latter apparently can use Rushmore.