OK. I understand. It is work for hire I guess, not really your property. There are some C examples on the net, I will check them out.
Thanks.


>David,
>>I tried this out on a table with 1100 rows, a string about 20 chars. The version from Frank did it in 3 seconds, yours did it in 2. This is adequate for my purposes, for now. Do you have the C version?
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>Yes, but this I cannot share.
>I was allowed to put the faster vfp version into public domain, but not the C version
>- both were developed for the same customer and customer is always right.
>
>sorry
>
>thomas