>>>That sounds interesting. I am dealing a lot with large strings and files, and that could significantly improve performance.
>>I'll work on it tonight.
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>Actually, I'll wait to hear some feedback and work on it this weekend.
>
>>What are some of the API functions you'd like to see? I'll use a FSTR prefix, for "fast string."
>>FSTRNEW(nSize)
>>FSTRBEF("new text to prepend", lcName)
>>FSTRAFT(lcName, "new text to append")
>>FSTRMID(lcName, nStartingChar, "new text to insert")
>>FSTRLEN(lcName)
>>FSTRZAP(lcName)
>>FSTRFREE(lcName)
>>FSTRDEL(lcName, nStart, nLength)
>>FSTRCHRTRAN(lcName, cSearchString, cReplaceString)
>>lcString = FSTRSUBSTR(lcName, nStart, nLength)
>>lcString = FSTRDATA(lcName[, .t.]) && .t. -- Delete after extract?

That's a lot already, only one I would like to see is STREXTRACT().