>>Dan;
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>>I think that would only work with files, Dan. I'm trying to import from a string without saving it to a file. I've worked out a routine, but I thought maybe it could be shorter, faster and simpler.
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>>Of course, writing each string to a file and then importing would be short and sweet, but probably needlessly slow...
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>How about using STRTOFILE() to create the file, then using APPEND FROM?
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>Tamar

Yeah - my gut said avoiding disk writes would be faster. Thanks, tho.