>>Besides, I didn't see a problem in the code. As far, as I understand, there were no errors, but the code didn't remove double quotes from the file...
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>Hmmmm, looks fine to me. Dunno what the problem would be.
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Mike,

I found a problem. Somehow the lcPattern variable definition was changed. Instead of

lcPattern=left(tcDBFName,lnPos+1)+'???'+substr(tcDBFName,lnPos+4)

it was something different. Therefore the program just didn't do anything...

I'm testing the speed difference right now.

>>Should I revert the code back to the original cursor idea?
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>As far as effeicent goes, I'd bet that the cursor idea is faster anyways, so yes. You could easily test it out.