Ahhhh, thanks for the insight, Richard. The "repeat for each" form
of the loop control structure is faster than the filter command. A
quick test showed that I can cut my time by about 150 milliseconds
per 800 lines of data. Considering that I have some 4,000 files with
thousands of lines per file, it'll make a real difference.
Greg Lypny
Associate Professor of Finance
John Molson School of Business
Concordia University
Montreal, Canada
Richard Gaskin responded concisely with the link below my original post:
On 9-Dec-05, at 7:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gregory Lypny wrote:
Hello everyone,
I use the filter command on tab-delimited text files when I
want to
pick off a string in a particular column. For example, if the string
is located in the second column of a five column file, I use
filter theData with "*" & tab & searchString & tab & "*" & tab &
"*" & tab & "*" .
This, I assume, ensures that my hits don't include lines where the
string appears in any other column. It works like lightening when I
search in any of the first four columns, but beyond that I get the
dreaded spinning beach ball in Mac OS X (Tiger). Is there a
better way?
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