David,

see my reply to Mike.


>Regarding Thomas' reply, the seek/replace code is orders of magnitude faster, so in this case the benefit I would get by using scan instead of do while not eof() wouldn't be significant, I don't think. Also, in other benchmarks I've done, I've found that in loops with replaces, the replace statements contribute to the bulk of the processing time, and the looping construct time is negligible. I find the old style do while not eof() more readable. Correct me if you think I'm off base on this.

If it is more readable to you, stay with Do While Eof(). My preference is in the answer to Mike -
but timing differences probably are not that great.
But - I would still argue to get rid of the "go top" before the seek ;-)

regards

thomas