Hi Chip We have been talking about * all along. Without * has never been in my test.
My test always consider total length of text "and" total count of occurrence. My test is for 4,300,000 length text and 100,000 occurrence. It took 14ms on my machine. Alan Chan 4D iNug Technical <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> writes: >v13 testing >position - no * find character (u + umlaut) end of 2,000,000 length text >56ms +/- ms > >Position (*) - find same character at end of 2,000,000 length text >3 ms +/- 1ms > >so... when you know that diacritcallity, or capitalization, is important >Position with * is MUCH faster -- at least in v13 ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************