>It looks like we'd be better off building the string like follows.
>
>lcString = lcString + "one"
>lcString = lcString + "two"
>
>or does that make a difference as far as messing with the memory?

In the past, I've done that (SQL Selects sent to backend mostly) and it has worked. In this instance though, I wasn't able to make it behave differently. I broke it down into a bunch of 120 character strings and added them all together. The end result was the same.

It's curious too because I'm building monster strings with FileToStr() and having no problems. Of course, I never do anything with the string except dump it into a memo file.

Hmmm....

M.