Scott and Geoff,
Thank you both for your helpful replies.
Craig
From: Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>At 4000 records I don't think there's much of a worry doing it the way
>you are. 4000 is probably too much to put each of the records on a
>separate card, at least if you're going to use "find" to try to find
>things. But pretty much anything else (including reading from files)
>would work. If you want to optimize your searching you could use an
>associative array or an associative array property, but you'd have to
>rely on perfect matches rather than the fuzzier "is in" match you're
>using above. So the lookup would be done directly with:
>put line (the kwIndex[tSearchItem] of me) of gText into tAnotherVar
> Regards,
> Scott
From: "Geoff Canyon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Definitely look into the filter command. It involves a little work on
>your part getting the filter key correct, and be sure to work on a copy
>of the data, since it works on the data in place, but it's very fast,
>even when you use an odd key to, say, match data only in the seventh item.
>
>gc
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Craig Spooner
Instructional Multimedia Specialist
Office of Instructional Services
Colorado State University
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