another -v processing question

[Coleman]

Dennis:

Check out Nancy Palmquist's fP Tips (#9) @ www.vss3.com.  
Lookup - is what you need.  

Don Coleman
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---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Dennis Malen <dmalen at malen.com>
Reply-To: Dennis Malen <dmalen at malen.com>
Date:  Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:12:14 -0400

>Ken,
>
>That would be great also. But simply I am using the power of -v to select 
>the records. In order to do that I am starting from the beginning of the 
>file in order the -v  to "select" the appropriate records.
>
>If there were some way within processing or on the command line to identify 
>an automatic index to use and -v would recognize this it would save a 
>tremendous amount of time. Using -v takes longer and longer as the file 
>grows.
>
>Dennis Malen
>516.479.5912
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
>To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
>Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
>Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 2:33 PM
>Subject: Re: another -v processing question
>
>
>> Dennis Malen wrote:
>>> Will future versions of filepro every allow -v to take advantage of an 
>>> automatic index. Once a file has a substantial amount of records, the 
>>> time complete process gets longer and longer.
>>>
>>> OR is there any way around it?
>>
>> You mean, something like using a command line flag to specify which index 
>> you wish to use, and some sort of lookup to move around in the file using 
>> that index?
>>
>> -- 
>> Kenneth Brody 
>
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