Better than tables, better than delimited lines?

[Thomas McGrath III]

Actually, Sarah, this helps a lot!  The first part is exactly a way in 
which I need to 'look' at the data. I never looked at the filter aspect 
before. and I am very much a visual person and need to 'see' the data 
the first few hundred times I work with it. :-)

Off to read up on filtering.....

Thanks

Tom

On Apr 22, 2005, at 2:53 AM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> The filter command should be able to do what you want very quickly e.g.
> filter fld "Data" with myKey1 & comma & myKey2 & comma & myKey3 & 
> comma & "*"
> will give you only the lines that start with the 3 specified keys.
> Then you can loop through a subset of the original data.
>
> While custom properties may be faster, I prefer to do my initial 
> development with the data in a visible and easily editable form. Even 
> later on, I still find that this is often the best way as retrieving & 
> setting the data is rarely the speed limiting step.
>
> HTH,
> Sarah

Thomas J McGrath III
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