>>>Errr....what's the major difference?
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>>Going from the first character to the last in the loop rather than the last in the first. I thought, mistakenly as it turns out, that incrementing the loop positively (from 1 to n) would be faster than decrementing it (from n to 1). No ig deal.:-)
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>PMFJI, even though the loop may be faster, assigning the variable as John did is definitely faster (i.e. in the form txtstr = txtstr + txtstr1). That was one of the major improvements in VFP 6.

Forget my previous post. It NEVER pays to not read a thread before posting.