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Inlist() comparison question
I have noticed that inlist works as if we were doing a compare with one equal sign. IOW, it only does the compare for the length of the expressions we are checking.
cTemp = "ford"
inlist(upper(cTemp),"THE","AND","ARE","FOR") returns .t.
I would like to use the inlist function because I think I read that it is very efficient, but I only want it to return .t. if the exact match is found.
Is my only option to do something like
upper(cTemp) $ "THE|AND|ARE|FOR"
I see that this works but I have a routine that can run this comparison a few million times so performance is a huge concern or consideratioin.
Thanks in Advance,
Paul
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