It would appear from public records that Jim Korenthal passed away in 2011 at the age of 65.

>>>Is there a quicker way?
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>LIKE is partly Rushmore optimizable from memory- though it's less likely if your string can be anywhere in the field.
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>myfleld="Test1Test2"
>? LIKE("*Test1*",myfleld)
>? LIKE("*Test2*",myfield)
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>Especially if there's only a few likely matches, I agree with the suggestion to extract matches to a cursor. SET FILTER in a Grid can be terribly slow...
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>The other thing you might try, is the old PHDBase that still works in VFP9. http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~PhdBase Pulling records with a string expression can be nearly instantaneous, even with hundreds of thousands of records. Also it has a really good fuzzy search in case somebody misspells MacAdam (sic) and you need to find that needle in a haystack! I'm not sure whether you can still buy it- its author, Jim Korenthal, seemed to change direction many years ago.