Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!sri-unix!lowans.henr@XEROX.ARPA From: lowans.henr@XEROX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Re: dBase II query... Message-ID: <12424@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 08:18:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12424 Posted: Thu Sep 27 08:18:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Sep-84 04:35:14 EDT Lines: 11 Look in your dBASE manual for information on the "$ substring logical operator", I think this will help you. A search through the entire database is nessessary because this is the way a dabase management system works, it searches through the entire database record by record till the information is found. If it finds it in record #1, it doesn't know if record #50 also containes the correct information. If you can, input the data ranking it in ASCII collating sequence within each record. INDEXing the database will then put records with the same keywords together. Paul