>>This is easily found by referring to VFP help.
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>>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h0zw37w7.aspx
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>Yes, it came from the help, which I read it before posting this thread. I wanted to collect more feedback as to know more about it.

The function seems to be blazingly fast (or my machine is, even with a 4-year-old processor). I have lots of tables with years of text stored in memos, and when I need to find something,

browse for atc("blabla", mymemo)>0 or atc("bla bla", mymemo)>0

executes in a microjiffy, even with a fpt file of a few hundred megabytes. The best poor man's search engine.