RE: fast search or scan for words in selected field

> Hi,
> 
> We currently have customer master file which has customer company name
> field. Customer company name field is 20 long, if this field has "MY
> TEST COMPANY" description saved then we have another program which will
> make three records for this records in our custom file, first records
> with their customer number and name  will have "MY" and second record
> will have "TEST" and the third record will have "COMPANY". We have to do
> this for fast search by any description given by customers.  Our files
> are getting huge and want to know if there is another quick way to
> handel this on green screen. I thank you for your time.
> 
> Wayne

Wayne
        this is similar to how we do our searches.

We do however limit the minimum length to 3 characters
so we wouldn't have a record for MY.
Also we limit the search word to 6 characters max.

The files are long but not necessarily huge :)

Mike
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