Yes, it is. Me either until Larry pointed to it.


>Sergey,
>
>That's cool...I wasn't aware of the setvar() function.
>
>>>
>>>Is there any reason why you prefer using EXECSCRIPT() over _VFP.Setvar() siggested by Larry Miller ?
>>
>>Here's the result of the tests I ran
>>

>>Command                Time        # of itterations
>>
>>Execscript            1.693        100
>>_VFP.Setvar           0.000        100
>>
>>Execscript           16.984       1000
>>_VFP.Setvar           0.010       1000
>>

>>As you can see VFP.Setvar is much faster. It's understandable, because Execscript() has to write code to the file, compile it and run from the file. _VFP.Setvar on other hand is built-in method of _VFP object. In addition _VFP.Setvar can work with local variables.
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