No worries. I clearly relish my anonymity.
I should have been more specific. The class should filter out control type characters, with the exception of TAB, LF & CR, because Excel will refuse to open if those characters are in the data. It's relatively easy to use a regex to do that and my experience has been that as fast as the Fox can be with string manipulations, a proper C library will be much faster.
I do understand your concern about using 3rd party libraries. Maybe there's a relatively easy way to allow a 3rd party library to be plugged in for the purposes of cleaning strings.
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