>Hi All,
>
>I am trying to confirm a point iro the working of mdot: if I have a file with 10 fields and 100 records and I need to scan through this file and inside my loop I reference 10 variables then will VFP need to lookup and resolve 10 vars x 10 fields x 100 recs = 10,000 field/variable references? Would using mdot avoid the need to perform 10,000 field/vars lookups?

Hi Jos:
The answer is simple: YES.

Time = O(1 + K1* FCOUNT()* NVariableWithoutMdotReads)

Another case is this: objRef.Property read ( Property is a random choice from AMEMBERS )

Time = O(1 + K2 * AUSED()* NObjRefWithOneDotReads + K3 * NObjRefReads * AMEMBERS(ObjRef))

Fabio