>Hi Jeff.
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>>Anyone know of a compare function or other utility that will return whether two tables with the same structure contain exactly the same data in each field?
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>Someone (don't remember who) posted a simple way to do this in VFP 7 or later: use CURSORTOXML to convert each table to XML string, then do a simple IF lcXMLTable1 = lcXMLTable2. That would find any differences, including structure or content.
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>Doug
Then why not just read the entire file with FileToStr()? This should work faster, and be compatible with VFP6.
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