>>>As far as effeicent goes, I'd bet that the cursor idea is faster anyways, so yes. You could easily test it out.
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>>Yes, cursor idea turns to be a little bit faster. Well, three lines of code comparing with several not always the best way to achieve the result. This is a lesson for me to the future...
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>Hello, Nadya.
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>Have you tried? :
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>llReturn = strToFile( strTran( fileToStr( lcFileName ),["],''), lcSendFileName )
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>Although I suspect that the speed would be the same...

set safe off
lcFileName="l:\redp\output\customer\website\ctxa0051.txt"
lcSendFileName="l:\redp\output\customer\website\test.txt"
lnSec=seconds()
? "File To Str Idea"
for i=1 to 5
  llReturn = strToFile( strTran( fileToStr( lcFileName ),["],''), lcSendFileName )
next
?seconds()-lnSec, (seconds()-lnSec)/5
? "Cursor Idea"
lnSec=seconds()
for i=1 to 5
create cursor curWork (workFile M)
append blank
append memo WorkFile from (lcFileName) overwrite
replace workFile with strtran(workFile,["],"")
copy to (lcSendFileName)
use in CurWork
next
?seconds()-lnSec, (seconds()-lnSec)/5

Result:

File to Str:
66.486    13.2972
Cursor Idea:
67.607    13.5124

for 639KB file.
So, you on-liner seems to be faster a little bit. Could you also test it on some file?

Thanks in advance.