>Cetin,
>
>I was just wondering if you would get any improvement if you assigned the value of fcount() to a var before processing in VFP in the for loop
>
>lncount=fcount()
>For ix=1 To lncount
>
>instead of
>For ix=1 To Fcount()
>
>Wouldn't Fox try to evaluate fcount() in every iteration?
>
>John

No, foxpro evaluates the Fcount() once at the start of loop.
Cetin