Hi John,

>I was told that, searching records from text file base with binary search will faster than seearching from FP database,isn't it?

Then tell him that he's wrong. *s* VFP does internal use some sort of binary search, actually it's a balanced-tree search that is even faster than a binary search in a text file. The fastest way to find a record is to have all data in a table, an index on the search expression and use SEEK.

Christof