Thanks, David-

Have been pretty uninterested in this, frankly, but I'll throw in your suggestions and try it out. Thanks. Oh, and yeah, we're coming about 1/2 as fast as the straight-VB solution.

>Nancy,
>
>This line of code from your solution:
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>lcName = RTRIM(STRTRAN(CHRTRAN(CHRTRAN(lcName, CHR(10), ' '), CHR(13), ' '), ' ', ' '))
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>would be faster done like this:
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>vfCRLF = chr(13) + chr(10) && don't use #define which is going to at runtime redo the concatenation over and over
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>lcName = RTRIM(STRTRAN(CHRTRAN(lcName, vfCRLF, ' '), ' ', ' '))
>
>There are some other optimizations that could be done if VFP is proving to be way slower than VB.