store is already faster than lcVariable = '', also it's impossible to Store into a field of a table, therefore m. is not necessary, on the other side it's not hurting. In a number of experiments with 10 million loops I get no tendency towords the one or the other being faster or slower, even with a table open in the current work area having 255 fields. MDots is only making a difference when you read from a variable, not store to it, not with STORE TO nor with =.
Bye, Olaf.