Thanks Dave,

We have a big project going on and some of it is in C++ and other parts in VFP. We have some large strings that need to be parsed and the C++ people were not happy about doing it because, as they put it, "C++ is a real pain for string manipulation". Not knowning C++, I took their word for it.

>Craig,
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>C++ has really good string handling classes. VFP basically has string handling speeds that are on par with the underlying C/C++ code.
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>Doing COM in C++ is a true annoyance, the code ends up getting cluttered up with casts and conversion calls to get stuff to work.
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>>There's no reason not to leave it in Fox. Fox has blazing speed when manipulating strings. C++ will have the smallest footprint, but it's a bear to code string handling and even worse when doing COM (or so I'm told).