Had to have been something wrong with the tests. VFP is blazing fast at text manipulation.
http://stevenblack.com/text.html>I do remember a while ago I was testing some manipulations with big files and string functions. It was quite slow and C fll was much faster.
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Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer