Hey Rich

I goofed. I thought he was using SQL Insert, but that was while I was looking at Fernando's code. You were correct that the OP must avoid INSERT BLANK.

Mike

>>Performance Increased a Lot particularily by Using
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>>IF MOD(lnCount, 100) = 0
>>WAIT WINDOW 'Remaining Records...'+ALLTRIM(STR(RECNO())) NOWAIT
>>ENDIF
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>>However this line is inserting records at the bottom of file and not below the required record so I have kept my original code there
>>
>>INSERT INTO BillFile (POS) VALUES (cTexttwo)
>>
>>Any suggestion , Please Intimate
>>
>>Harsh
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>The old INSERT command has been deprecated in VFP (meaning it is still there but it isn't recommended that you use it).
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>If I remember correctly, that's because it needs to rebuild the file each time you do the insert command. For small files, the processing time is negligible and doesn't have a material impact on performance. But, the bigger the file, the longer each iteration takes and you reach a point where the system slows to a crawl.
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>I would suggest something like

>SELECT *,000000000.0000 as SortKey FROM billfile INTO CURSOR billfile2 READWRITE
>REPLACE ALL sortkey WITH recno() IN billfile2
>lnInsertnum = 0.0000

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>** Do your code and when you come to the point where you want to do the insert
>
>

lnInsertnum = lnInsertnum + .0001
>lnSortKey = sortKey + lnInsertNum
>
>INSERT INTO billfile2 VALUES ( < all the insert values >,lnSortKey)

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>** finish your code.
>
>At the end you can
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SELECT < all the fields except sortkey > FROM billfile2 ORDER BY sortkey INTO CURSOR billfile READWRITE

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>and I would expect the records to be in the sequence you want. If the way I've expressed it isn't clear, maybe somebody can explain it better.
>
>........Rich