>Erik,
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>I didn't even see a VFP response for the file I/O. Besides, as I've said before, this particular part of the challenge is really weighted towards VB. VB can do the file read directly. VFP would have the additional overhead of converting of the values from character to double precision floating points. That, in and of itself, is a killer. This is not to say that in all areas VFP's file I/O is inferior, just in this particular instance. I think Craig had the idea to read in the entire contents of "War and Peace" and change "Anna" to something else. In something like that, my money would be on VFP.

That actually came from Steven Black.