>Thanks alot for your suggestion George,
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>I've rewritten the parser to take advantage of those foxtools functions and it is much faster, down from 56 seconds to 9. So, on this machine I think that will be good enough for now.
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>Thanks again.
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You're welcome, Matt. You might, if you haven't already, download my Extended Foxtools Help file (under Coding, Syntax, and Commands). Everything (up to VFP 5.0) in Foxtools is documented there, with some corrections to the official MS docs.
George
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