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

OIC, I hadn't considered that. Thanks, John!