>Ed- on review of my DevCon notes, I believe you're right. I think that I was mentally combining the results of two facts:
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>1. SELECT statements will evaluate UDFs for every line.
>2. Macros slow down a scan loop because VFP re-evaluates them
Ed must be right -- I use macros in many queries of a million records or so, and as long as they're indexed properly, they run virtually instantly...As you say, though, UDFs will really bog things down. The SCAN makes sense, too...
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