Hi Leo,

that looks simple and fast to me.

Hank

>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
>>
>>

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

>>
>>Hank
>>