>Using VFP6 SP4
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>Are there any article on string manipulation in VFP6?
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>I need to write a generic routine to parse any text file into 80 character lines and output these lines into a new text file, for sending up into a mainframe.
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>I am currently grabbing the file with the STRTOFILE() into a memvar then I go through each character 1 character at a time to create this file. I also do some other testing but this is the idea.
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>However, this technic seems slow, especially on a large text file.
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>Any help would be great.
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>Thanks,
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Jerryt,

If it's fixed at 80

lcstring = FILETOSTR(lcfilename)
lcnewstring = ""
lcCF_TEXT = CHR(13) + CHR(10)
DO WHILE NOT EMPTY(lcstring)
  lcnewstring = lcnewstring + lcCF_TEXT + LEFT(lcstring, 80)
  lcstring = SUBSTR(lcstring, 81)
ENDDO
lcnewstring = SUBSTR(lcnewstring, 3)
= STRTOFILE(lcnewstring, lcnewfile)

Note that this is just off the top of my head and I haven't debugged it.