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>Wow! That was a blazingly fast 5 seconds only, for all 28,000 urls! What I don't fully understand is your note that it's C++. Isn't it VB?
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The RegExp is part of ms scripting and can be accessed as an object. There are VB and java interfaces.
All that code is written in C++ (like windows itself)

See:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnclinic/html/scripting051099.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/vsobjRegExp.asp



>>Also, I would work with ON ESCAPE instead of INKEY()
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>No problem with me, although 30,000 times INKEY() took only 0.05 seconds.

That was for speed, you asked for ;)