>Hey George
>
>I think it would be slower to use FORCEEXT instead of myalias+"."+myfield. I like the sneaky way your mind works < g >. The juststem is clever. You should have sent that to Foxpro Advisor Magazine and get a nice t-shirt for it.

Hi Mike,

You're right about FORCEEXT being slower. It's about 40%. Of course, you have to get up to about a million iterations of a loop to see a noticable difference.< g >

Sneaky? I've heard twisted, warpped, etc., but never sneaky< bg >.

Naw, I've got enough t-shirts. Besides, I prefer checks < rbg >.