>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

lparameters tcIn, tcOut
handlein=fopen(tcIn)
handleout=fcreate(tcOut)
do while !feof(handlein)
 fputs(handleout,fgets(handlein,80))
enddo
fclose(handlein)
fclose(handleout)

PS:No error checking.
Cetin