How did you do your tests? Can I find them somewhere? I fail to come up with the same results. In my testings, up to 10 megs, the usual string append is almost linear and strtofile() is much slower for any size.

Vlad

>If you know your strings will be large (even if they're not so large - anything
>over 25k in my tests) its faster to write output to file and then read the file back into a string with FILETOSTR when you're done.
>
>+++ Rick ---