Can lineOffSet find last occurance?

[Bill Vlahos]

Thanks for all of the suggestions. What I ended up doing is simply put 
the data into a variable and then filtering it. This is very quick even 
for a lot of data.

I did find where my performance bottleneck is. Apparently sorting by 
date is considerably slower than regular sorts and I do two of them. My 
data (tab delimited text log files) includes a date field and time 
field.

The log files are created in chronological order so I normally wouldn't 
need to sort them. However, I have added the ability to keep appending 
log files together and can't assume the user will do them in 
chronological order. As a result, the initial processing of the log 
files takes a very long time. I'm not sure if I can improve the sort by 
date performance hit.

Bill Vlahos


On Sunday, September 1, 2002, at 06:57  PM, Sarah wrote:

> Alternatively, how about finding the starting line, then using a 
> repeat for each but doing exit repeat if the current line doesn't 
> contain your text. The filter command is very fast too. I suggest some 
> timing tests to see what is the best option for your data.