Dec. 23, 2020
West Wind Technologies has released Help Builder 5.32. Help Builder creates online and offline documentation with easy Markdown based content...
Dec. 8, 2020
The Web Service Proxy Generator makes it easy to SOAP Web Services from Visual FoxPro. The tool provides a Wizard to generate a FoxPro Web Service...
Dec. 2, 2020
West Wind Technologies has released Markdown Monster 1.25 of its popular Markdown Editor, Viewer and Weblog Publishing tool. Markdown is an easy to...
Dec. 1, 2020
West Wind Client Tools is a suite of utility classes that provide Internet functionality including SMTP & POP3 Email, full featured HTTP Web access,...
Oct. 27, 2020
West Wind Technologies has released Help Builder 5.30. Help Builder creates online and offline documentation with easy Markdown based content...
6 months ago
FoxPro's string speed is reasonably good for most operations. But one shortcoming is character by character parsing which can only be accomplished via the `SUBSTR()` command, which as it turns out is horribly slow when strings get large. In this post I describe the problem and offer a couple of solutions to get better character by character parsing speed for string iteration.