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I agree with Alan, try using SQL. Try this:

SELECT * FROM MYTABLE WHERE MYFLD LIKE '%rick%'


HTH,
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/


On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What about using SQL?

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 3:06 PM, <Rick.Chevalier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm wondering if using regular expressions is a good way to handle a word
search. What I need is an exact match of a series of characters, say
'rick', in a character field. I have only used regular expressions a
couple
of times and the syntax still gets me confused. I think I see a way to
do
this with with something like r{1}i{1}c{1}k{1}.

I know I can do this with the %SCAN op code. The reason I'm thinking
about
using regular expressions is the search will be over a table of close to
1
billion records and I'm looking for efficiencies any place I can find
them.
If an expression can be created I want to do some comparisons between
using
a regular expression and %SCAN to see which is really the best performer.

Any thought would be appreciated.

Rick Chevalier
IT Software Solutions - Loan Servicing

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