>Nadya,
>
>(once again with the right tag_
>
>I'm quite positive I was using VFP6. The string limit is only available memory. I ran the code on a 256MB NT4 machine. The file size was 39,452,096 bytes long.
>
>

lcStr = filetostr( "TheBad.csv" )
>
>i = 0
>
>FixIt( chr(10) + ",", " ," )
>FixIt( [,] + chr(10), " ," )
>FixIt( " " + chr(10), "  " )
>FixIt( chr(10) + " ", "  " )
>
>FixIt( chr(10) + chr(10), "  " )
>
>FixIt( chr(13) + " ", "  " )
>FixIt( chr(13) + ",", " ," )
>
>? "write", datetime()
>strtofile( lcStr, "TheGood.csv" )
>? "done", datetime()
>
>function FixIt( pcSearch, pcFix )
>i = i + 1
>? "convert", i, datetime()
>lcStr = strtran( lcStr, pcSearch, pcFix )
>return

>
>To test the size of strings you can run this code (I wouldn't do it on a 64MB machine unless you have lots and lots of time to wait for virtual memory swaps)

I have 192MB. Should I try?

>
>

lcStr = "1234567890"
>for i = 1 to 20
>  lcStr = lcStr + lcStr
>endfor
>
>for i = 1 to 5
>   strtofile( lcStr, "c:\temp\bigfile.txt", .t. )
>endfor
>
>lcStr = filetostr( "c:\temp\bigfile.txt" )
>? datetime(), len( lcStr )
>? datetime(), occurs( '0', lcStr )
>lcStr = chrtran( lcStr, '0', 'a' )
>? datetime(), occurs( 'a', lcStr )

>
>This creates a 51mb string and changes 5.2 million 0s to a and counts them in about 10 seconds on my machine.
>
>>Could you show some code content? Are you sure, you used it in VFP6.0? I thought, the string limit in VFP6 is 16MB (I believe, John Koziol told me this limit while ago).