>>Can you explain what you are trying to do ? There may be other ways to Rome
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>The parsing of a message on the Universal Thread is quite intensive. There is a lot of code parsing and that varies based on the forum. Some environment require more parsing than others. The SQL Server forum for example requires additional manipulation. Basically, the goal is to parse the code for color syntaxing. What I have now is quite optimized but I am sure I can fine tune it more.

You could offload all of that stuff to the client using a library like this:

http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/manual/demo/

You'd have to create a syntax file for VFP, but it should be pretty close the VB version.