[Info-vax] Looking for some text search ideas

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Paul Sture wrote 2014-09-27 13:01:
> On 2014-09-27, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> Craig A. Berry wrote:
>
>>> A good regular expression engine would run circles around INSTR in both
>>> functionality and performance. A full text search engine would too, and
>>> if the data are simple, you could build your own with only moderate
>>> trouble that indexed words (or characters if you wish) and saved either
>>> unique key values or RFAs to get from the search string back to the
>>> containing record(s).
>>>
>> Not RMS, but similar.  The product file is just records with 50-60 data
>> fields...


Was it ever mentioned how many records/products we are
talkning about here? A couple of thousands or millions?