>>However I never found VFP's string handling fast. It uses things like
>>handles to memory locations. If you do like in your code :
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lcXML = lcXML + someaddition
>>Adding over and over to same variable is not optimized at all. However
>>that code might be optimized in different ways (in VFP there are at least
>>3 ways:).
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>Actually, there is some optimization going on in that case. Unfortunately, it can cause the code to break in recursive cases. To avoid the optimization _IF_ you are hitting this problem, change it to read:
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lcXML = "" + lcXML + someaddition
Garrett, can you expand on this a bit more please? Why is this faster?
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