>>I'm a little surprised to find that FOR is faster than SCAN (in applicable situations) in some tests I did in vfp6. The old rule was the other way around, I believe...
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>What exactly were you doing?

For each record, call a method to check a substring against other strings, basically. The FOR was something like 10-15% faster, important to me since I have to do this 1000s of times in some research work...