Hi, An option is pdoc or file streams... They are a bit easier to search through than dbs... Any open sourced text editor (tejpwriter is the first offf my head) has find/replcae code, you may take a look at that...?
On 10/16/07, r r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the info Roger. > > Since this is a static list of words and definitions > that I control, I should be able to access a record > using the index of the record and then from there be > able to pull the definition in to a text field? > > I had started creating this without a db and had > gotten too many words/definitions and it would not > link... > > So I thought, lets look at the database route. > > I also saw multi segment option too... is that > advisable instead of the db route? > > Looking for guidance. This is a static list of words > that I would build on the desktop to make the PDB and > the hand held version would simply be a hand held > definition reference. > > Maybe something like this exists in an example, and I > could stop reinventing the wheel :) > > If anyone knows of something like this, please advise > > Thanks > Dean-O > --- Roger Stringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At 04:15 AM 10/16/2007, you wrote: > > >Subject: Re: DB question, searching > > >From: r r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:54:33 -0700 (PDT) > > >X-Message-Number: 5 > > > > > >Thanks for the idea... to see if I understand this > > >correctly, mainly the index counting in the PDB... > > is > > >the first record in the database index zero or one? > > > > > >I have also read about unique Id and index. are > > these > > >the same thing or different? > > > > Indexes start at zero and are dynamic, so if you > > insert a record in > > the middle of the file (which you can do!) then the > > index numbers > > beyond it are incremented by one. Indexes are also > > UInt16. > > > > Record ID's, which are UIn32, uniquely identify each > > record and don't > > change, except if a file is restored by HotSync. > > > > But a warning... You should avoid high record > > counts! Although you > > can have 64K records, you should avoid getting > > significantly over > > 10K. If you need more records then start treating > > each PDB record > > as a block and put multiple actual records in each > > block. > > > > > > Roger Stringer > > Marietta Systems, Inc. (www.rf-tp.com) > > > > > > -- > > For information on using the ACCESS Developer > > Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see > > http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/ > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- > For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, > please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/ > -- /*PhreakOnALeash*/ "My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain IBM" -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
