Tom,

Now I'm wondering what DataToClip() does underneath! There are a few differences between what DataToClip produces and what COPY TO produces.


>Cindy, here is what I found out via some testing of my own. I created
>a 6 column cursor containing 65,000 rows of data (near the Excel 64K limit).
>
>I then wanted to see how long it would take for the various copy methods
>to work. Here are the results:
>
>1.) COPY TO ... TYPE XLS - 10.813 seconds but only 16,383 rows copied.
> I did this to show that VFP does not report an error when reaching
> the 16,383 limit.
>
>
>2.) Application.DataToClip(,,3) - 54.422 seconds.
>
>3.) COPY TO filename DELIMITED WITH TAB then
> _CLIPTEXT = FILETOSTR(filename) - 37.172 seconds.
>
>Options 1 and 2 take about the same time with less than 20K rows.
>
>It is interesting that option 3 with two VFP commands is indeed faster than the single DataToClip()...