Thanks, I'm going to work through your timings with my stuff today.


>Steve,
>I didn't mean VFP concat slower than DOM or VB. I only said lowlevel manipulation beats VFP in itself. IOW go with VFP but test with lowlevel vs traditional concat. Also VFP6 and 7 versions tend to prove me wrong as traditional way vs lowlevel gap is greatly reduced. Now it's very hard to show which one is faster. ie (a sample test that doesn't prove anything but might give idea):
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