Christian,

Use the SET TEXTMERGE commands to most quickly output this sort of file. The only "trick" to keep from getting an empty first line is to code it like this

set textmerge to yourfile.txt
set textmerge on noshow
scan
   \\<<whatever you are outputting>>
   \
endscan
set textmerge off
set textmerge to

>Hello,
>
>I need to do the following:
>1) Query 100,000 lines from different tables and extract a string of about 200 characters per line,
>2) Add each line to a variable plus line break,
>3) Create a file (using StrToFile()) from the variable.
>
>I wonder how I can prevent performance problems by calling 100,000 times lcString = lcString + lcLine. This is going to re-allocate memory all the time, and I like to pre-allocate the needed memory for best performance. I remember having read an article about this many years ago (from Christopher) but I really do not remember anything about it, so I would be very thankful if somebody would give me a tip.