>>I haven't had time to test it, but I seem to recall George Goley showing how if you let VFP do the stringstuff for you with a copy to you would/could call on Rushmore. So, it may mean a copy to is faster. Then again they optimized the string manipulations in VFP 6, and according to Calvin some instances are actually faster than C++ which is the underlying code? Go figure that one.
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>I don't really see how Rushmore would come into play for this. You're already on the correct record when you do a COPY MEMO. And as far as VFP6 string stuff being faster than the C++ string manipulations, who knows how they accomplished that little bit of magic!

Rushmore comes into play if you are doing string concatenation with multiple records as in copy next 10 ....