>>Jos,
>>Textmerge would be fast but I think still Copy to is the fastest method. You could use Copy to along with "Set fields to". Here is a sample:
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>>Re: Side by side comparison (strings & local data) Thread #861648 Message #865385
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>Although I don't see why _vfp.datatoclip(,,3) would not work in this case? Even if the first line needs to be stripped.
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>OTOH, Jos did say that there's some processing he needs to do while going through the fields, so this out-of-the-box automatic procedure wouldn't fit the bill.

_vfp.DataToClip()? Sorry I couldn't make the correlation:) - BTW I yet to find a usage scenario for _vfp.DaTaToClip(). In its current form (and unlikely it would be corrected from now on) I prefer to do my own "datatoclip" (do you have an idea why it adds an extra tab? Probably a coding error).

"...there's some processing he needs to do while going through the fields, so this out-of-the-box automatic procedure wouldn't fit the bill."
Did you check the code in link? Actually it was written to demonstrate with even 'processing' VFP was faster than C# ( < sigh > that was true only when I wrote those routines during .Net 1.x days. Now the ball rolled over to .Net's benefit).

Cetin