Filter Command

Gregory Lypny gregory.lypny at videotron.ca
Mon Nov 21 14:29:08 EST 2005


Hello Everyone,

	I'm having a bit of trouble with the Filter command giving me false  
positives.  I'm picking off company names in a file containing news  
headlines.  The headlines file has one headline per line, and each  
line is tab delimited, where the first item is a unique story number  
and the second is the actual headline.  It looks something like this:

1	tab	First headline text
2	tab	Second headline text
3	tab	Third headline text
...

My search command is of the form

	    filter it with "*" & tab & "*" & companyName & "*"

	This seems to works fine for all my companies except for "TSE 100  
Index Participation Fund Units".  I'm getting a lot of hits that  
contain "TSE" (Toronto Stock Exchange) in the headline but not the  
rest of the name.  This does not happen with other long names or  
names that have a common proper noun (e.g., Canada Bread gives me  
four hits all mentioning Canada Bread and none mentioning Canada or  
Bread alone).

	Any thoughts?

		Regards,

			Greg





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