Cheers Anand for the input - your approach is pretty much what I was
thinking myself.
As it's turned out things have changed abit for my client so my approach now
is different, but it's useful to know for the future.
Cheers all
Ross
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> So, I look to you all for any other ideas or concepts. Given the size of
the
> book she's converting, I'd rather like to avoid me or her typing in all
> 16,000+ terms, but without a definitive list of what's contained in the
book
> I can't see how to test if the search term would exist or not.
At 5:03 PM +0100 7/26/03, you wrote:
Cheers Slava
Will come in useful for the future but my client has already stated that
she'd rather not buy in xtras (why i don't know)
Any more suggestions?
make an estimate of how much your time will cost to enter in the
16,000 words & let the client compare
Cheers Slava
Will come in useful for the future but my client has already stated that
she'd rather not buy in xtras (why i don't know)
Any more suggestions?
Ross
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Have you looked at TextCruncher from
http://www.updatestage.com/xtras/xtrahome.html? That's what people use for
fast text searches. Simple string searches like those you've tried are very
slow. S.
At 03:56 PM 7/26/03 +0100, you wrote:
Dear List
Long time no post - I trust you are all well. Thi
Dear List
Long time no post - I trust you are all well. This is more of a concept
query than an actual coding one...
I've got a client who is converting a book of legal terms into a CD-ROM for
faster searching. All she seems to want to do is replicate the pages of the
book with each frame in the
