>Depends on the string eh? For short strings like a SQL statement, this will probably be faster than your COM object creation. CHRTRAN has been shown to cause performance problems in extremely large strings, but STRTRAN is devilishly fast. Also, no external dependencies to worry about.

Strtran() uses an alogrithm similar to boyer-moore -- the longer the seach string, the faster the pass through the source string.