>Marcia used 13 lines of code, I 7. Marcia, used only 1 string to do the work. I used 2. Performance difference, 2 orders of magnitude.
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>Not that this really matters in this example, but fewer lines of code doesn't not necessarily mean better performance. Andy has presented several conference sessions over the years on optimizing VFP and has plenty of examples to support this.

Marcia,

I agree with that. It was only in the response to John claiming that your and my solution were almost identical.
OTOH, more often than not shorter code is faster, but more importantly, better maintainable.

Walter,