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>>>>I am interested in Matt's arrays...thanks..rob
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>>>i'm sure matt's arrays are available for a price...
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>>Matt's arrays are kept under lock and key....by order of Matt's better half..
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>>LOL
>I recently saw a note that the EMPTY() function was not optimizable, I have not noticed any decrease in speed in my apps, but just to keep things going as quickly as I can, I am changing my searches to something like LOCATE FOR DELETED() OR NAME=SPACE(10) instead of DELETED() OR EMPTY(NAME).
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>Any opinions?

Makes sense to me. Since empty() works for all data types, I wouldn't expect it to optimizable