Repeat for each

[Ken Ray]

On 11/5/05 12:09 PM, "Geoff Canyon" <gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com> wrote:

>>> filter theData with "*" & tab & "*word*" & tab & "*" & \
>>>      tab & "*" & tab & "*" & tab & "*" & tab & "*" & tab & "*"
>> 
>> Actually, you only need to add "*" right after the thing you're
>> checking,
>> and shouldn't need any more "*"s, so this should work just as well:
>> 
>>   filter theData with "*" & tab & "*word*" & tab & "*"
> 
> That filter would match any line where "word" was in any item from
> 2-7 of 8. To nail it down to the second item the filter string has to
> include the tabs for all the items.

Good catch, Geoff - I stand corrected!

> Except for the fact that filter should probably be bugzilla'd for
> being slow. Can anyone come up with an example where filter beats
> "repeat for each?"

Not that I can think of...


Ken Ray
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