>what's the fastest way to search for a word?
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>I use:
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>SET FILTER TO AT(UPPER('HARDDISK'),UPPER(stockname))=1
>BROWSE
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>but I think it's too slow
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>thanks for the help
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>Jerry
The basic problem is that, with an appropriate index, you can optimize a search on the BEGINNING of a text, but not a search on ANY PART of a text. There are third-party tools that allow you to create separate indices, or you could create them yourself - the idea would be to create a separate, indexed, file that includes every word in the main file. But that is fairly complicated, especially if you want to do it yourself.
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