>Hi Walter,
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>First of all, I would like to thank you again for this solution. I added a new FAQ entry about it, it would appear soon.
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>Secondly, do you know, is there a way to display a thermometer here?
>If I use scan...endscan for the whole file, I can show a progress bar easily. Since here I use a scan for !keymatch(...), this technique would not work. Do you have ideas? If not, it's not critical, wait window would be enough, I think.
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You would have to get a COUNT FOR !KEYMATCH(... first to have an upper end for the progress bar.

Is an index in use? If not, you could still use a progbar, just get the percent using recno()/reccount()*100 - if you get to eof() and the progress bar isn't done, force it to 100. It will jump periodically instead of having a smooth incrementation, but people are used to seeing M$ progress bars do that <g>