Hi Jim,

>but I did test and for 100,000 interations the average time for the do case was .6XX seconds while teh averawge time for the one liner was .39X seconds. Almost twice as fast.

OK, what about this extremely easy to read version? *g*

Public gcLeap
gcLeap = Space(1599)+Replicate(Replicate("X"+Space(3),25)+Replicate(Space(4)+Replicate("X"+Space(3),24),3),10)
llLeap = not Empty(Substr(m.gcLeap,,1))

if you only test the last line in the loop? Anyone preferring this one? *bg*


Christof

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Christof