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