>I have a fairly large table of about 3000 records that I would like to more down and across each field. This seems to be taking a long time to excute. I am doing the following.
>
>myvar=""
>
>scan
> >FOR gnCount = 1 TO FCOUNT( ) && Loop for number of fields about 40 fields
>
> myvar=myvar+eval(FIELD(gnCount))
> >NEXT
>
>
> endscan
>
>Anyone know how to speed this up a bit?

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Well. It depends what kind of fields you are working with. Here is way if it is characters only:

COPY TO temp.txt TYPE SDF
myvar = filetostr("temp.txt")
myvar = strtran(myvar, CHR(13)+CHR(10), "")  && make one long string