RE: looking for faster Ideas...

[George Gallen]

Title: RE: looking for faster Ideas...

in rethinking my take on that. That would still be difficult

since the arrays would only contain "parts" of the whole fields.

making the searching of the arrays very difficult.

 

We can't store the exact entry, since sometimes people will

call and say stop sending me things and not give us the name

the same way it's in the database we rent.

 

Basically it takes the renting company a couple months to remove

the name, but we like to filter it immediately to stop anything

from going out before the renting company removes it, and it

also will catch it if the renting company replaces it in a couple

months later....

 

George

 

 -----Original Message-----
From: George Gallen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 2:06 PM
To: 'U2 Users Discussion List'
Subject: RE: looking for faster Ideas...

I can't just check for names, it has to a name with a specific zip code
and if the name is fairly common, we also add in part of the address to
make sure no one else is weeded out that shouldn't be.

I suppose I could keep two or three arrays, do a specific lookup in each
saving the position, and if all three positions are identicle (asuming all
three arrays have the name, address, zip in the same order) then that would
be a match....Thanks

George

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Schasny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 1:51 PM
>To: U2 Users Discussion List
>Subject: RE: looking for faster Ideas...
>
>
>how about keeping a list of excluded names as a record in a
>file (or as a
>flat file in a directory with each name/item/whatever on a
>line) and reading
>it into the program as a dynamic array then doing a locate on
>the string in
>question.  Something like this:
>
>
>READ ALIST FROM AFILE,SOME-ID ELSE STOP
>X = 0
>LOOP
>   X += 1
>   ASTRING = INLIST<X>
>UNTIL ASTRING = ''
>   LOCATE ASTRING IN ALIST SETTING POS THEN
>      DO
>      OTHER
>      STUFF
>   END ELSE
>      DONT
>   END
>REPEAT
>
>Of course of you really want speed then sort the list and use
>a "BY clause
>in the locate
>
>-----Original Message-----

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