Best Way

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 1/11/04 11:31 PM, Michael de Haan at mdeh at earthlink.net wrote:

Hi Michael,

> 2 questions:
> 
> 
> (1) What is the best way to search for , for example
> 
> Œword1¹ Œword2¹ Œword3¹
> 
> 
> where word1, word2 or word3 can be in any order.  In the past, I have
> used the "LIKE" and " AND"  operator to put each word into it's own
> LIKE statement, but I wondered if there is an easier "Valentina" way?

I think you can try combine 3 words in the SIGNLE like using REGEX's
OR statement.

    fld LIKE 'word1|word2|word3'

Then search will be ONE scan of file, i.e. 3 times faster.


> (2) If the user is allowed to use double quotation marks " " to defined
> an exact search, does Val provide a way to recognize this or must it be
> appropriately parsed by the program before being passed to the Val
> engine?

You need parse it.

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Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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