Sivakatirswami wrote: > Has anyone already written a "search engine" in MC that prompts the user to > select a volume or folder and a keyword (s) then searches "down" for the > keyword (s) and returns a list with the file paths for all hits? I am > thinking MC has to be faster than either Sherlock or BBEdit multi-file > search (the latter being very slow) > > I can write all the interface part of it, but the recursive search "down" is > the tricky part.
See this quickie util at: <ftp://ftp.fourthwoorld.com/MetaCard/4wSearch.mc.sit> Yes, MC is much faster than Schleplock, and there's no need for indexing. Like most of the stuff there, this gadget is very much a work in progress. But hopefull some of it will be useful. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Custom Software and Web Development for All Major Platforms Developer of WebMerge 1.9: Publish your database on the Web ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
