>What is the fastest way to search through a file to find a substring within a field? I know you can
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>set filter to 'xyz" $ yourfield
>go top
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>or an SQL Select equivalent, but in a file where there are thousands of records, it takes a long time, specially on a network...
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>Is there a quicker way?
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>Many thanks!

Hi John

You can use LOCATE instead of GO TOP. That may give you a small boost. The best thing of all will be to use SQL to build a cursor. It will be faster to navigate the resulting cursor than moving through your completely non-rushmore-optimizable set filter. By that I mean yes, there are ways to rushmore optimize a filter, but not using $.