Hi Agnes,

A total different approach to this problem:

The following is about 10 times as fast for two strings as the earlier solution, however handling more than two strings needs some additonal logic (process them in pairs and process the result of that again)

cStr1 = "ABCDEFGHIJ"
cStr2 = "0123456789"

cResult = CAST(BITOR(CAST(STRCONV(cStr1,12) as W),SUBSTR(CAST(STRCONV(' '+cStr2,12) as W),2)) as C(LEN(cStr1)*2))