John

I have to disagree

Excel does this job much faster. Perhaps you are factoring in the time it takes to load Excel and are only running on small tables.

For large tables it is better to uses anything other than VFPXTAB


>A particular case?? The cross-tabulation of data is a fairly generic process. I can't imagine a factor that would make a particular case unique. Perhaps the size of data. Then again, this would go back to the core design of the base program that would be useful in all situations.
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>Sorry Alexander, I can't agree with your conclusion especially since you have offered no benchmarks to support your conclusion. To say that the program that ships with VFP cannot be slower is a conclusion that simply has no basis. I have used VFPXTAB on many occasions. I have also used Excel via automation for these tasks. Of the two, I'll take the VFP solution.
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>>Hi!
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>>>How about the one that ships with the product? VFPXTAB.PRG???
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>>It's as slow as only possible. Write your own program for particular case.
>>It not very difficult but will be much faster.
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>>Alexander