>I began working on Faststring.dll tonight. I have the functions framed, and began working on FNEW(). Will be a couple weeks as I have lots of other things going on in my life.

Would it be an idea to first implement the class with the typical read/write functions and do the string manipulations later? For my purpose I would need the read/write to 95%, while the others are going to be exceptions. That would also give a proof of concept early on, so you can be sure you are on the right track.

I would like to compare the writer with the code I am using now to create a fairly large XML file. I am curious what the actual difference will be.