>>Using a UDF can be slow
>
>Hello Mike,
>
>Can you elaborate on this?

The linked article goes into that, but basically there is overhead involved in calling a udf (same goes for stored procedures <g>). The effect is lessened once compiled into an exe, but it's always there.

create cursor somealias (somefield c(10))
a=seconds()
for x = 1 to 1000
  y=field("somefield","somealias")
endfor x
?seconds()-m.a

a=seconds()
for x = 1 to 1000
  y=myudf("somefield","somealias")
endfor x
?seconds()-m.a

function myudf
lparameters m.tcField, m.tcAlias
return field(m.tcField,m.tcAlias)