Hi Hank,

Thanks for your reply.
Your suggestion brings me to the old problem that VFP have to increase the size of VAR everytime.
That's why it is slow.
I used this code from your idea:
(or can I implement this smarter)

lnSec = Seconds()
Do While !.Eof
	Text To lcXml Additive TextMerge NoShow
		<<.Fields(0).Value>>
	EndText
	.MoveNext()
EndDo
?'String:  ', Seconds() - lnSec

Leo
>Hi Leo,
>
>good idea. To get away from writing a file, you could use
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>

>TEXT TO <VAR> TEXTMERGE SHOW
>** scan loop; use << >> textmerge to create entries
>ENDTEXT
>

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>Hank
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