>>>The problem is that I have text files (produced as a result of copy to command). I need these files to not have double quotes as Field separators, e.g. remove all " from these text files. These files could be huge (up to 30MB). Therefore I'm searching for the most efficient way to achieve my goal.
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>>Hello, Nadya.
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>>Many years ago I had a simmilar problem (I don't remember well, but maybe it was double quotes, too) and I resorted to a little program in C that stripped the file from such character.
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>>Anyway, I think that VFP has one of the best speed for string manipulation, so I'm not sure that you can make the process quicker than the test we did.
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>>Giving the file size, maybe the memo file approach could be safer. I think there is a given limit to string variables, but if you have one of those 30 Mb files at hand, you can make a test and find out.
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>>Good luck!
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>Hi Martin,
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> Actually, VFP can handle strings only less than 16MB. I put 5000000 ( < than 5MB) just to be sure. So, for files less than 5MB I use now Memo approach and for other files low-level functions. Anyway, I'm not completely satisfied with the speed. Your on-liner seems to be a little bit faster (difference is about 1 sec.), but Mike warned me, that I can have Memory problems with that.
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>Anyway, I think C fll should be faster in this case (I'm not 100% sure, though). If you can find this C code and send it to me with the instructions of creating FLL (I did it once with Cetin's code, but it was ~1,5 years ago), I would really appreaciate it.
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>Thanks in advance.

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