>>Don't shy away from big strings in memvars. Sometimes it's just what you need! ;-)
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>You must have had some big SPR files!!! I looked at our SPR for the old FPW 2.6 app and the biggest one was 250K - or maybe we had small ones. I've only ran into one case where I need to hold more than 1 meg of information in a string. I do agree that Fox is pretty fast at strings but I think there is a point where Fox slows down. The 1 meg limit is just my superstition plus FPW 2.6 string limit was around 2 meg.

I was manipulating up to 4 or 8 megs in a string (or, rather, a memo) in FPD 2.6a, on a 486 - and the moment it became slow was when it would run out of memory and start plowing the disk.

Actually, at the time, FPD was the only text editor which wouldn't choke on huge files. It often helped a lot when I had something to do with text data before importing them - like replacing a tab with some other delimiter or vice versa.