>>After some few messages in a VB forum, a programmer gave me the answer: VB has a big problem with "dynamic realocation of a string being added to itself"... so, they need to access an API, as a workaround for that... something so trivial for us, and so problematic to them. :)
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>FYI, most of the VB community does not consider this a problem, it's simply the way things are done in VB. Differences like this contribute to a lot of confusion when comparing VB and VFP- doing things the VB way in VFP doesn't make sense, and doing things the VFP way in VB doesn't make sense.
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>There was some VFP/VB chest thumping a couple of years ago on one of the DevX boards in which various challenges were set forth for comparing which was faster, VB or VFP. The results of the challenges illustrated that tests like this are very difficult to conduct meaningfully, as the results usually end up comparing the skill of the programmer rather than the strengths/ weaknesses of the language.

Erik;

Well stated!

Tom