Retrieving information from lookup file

[Bruce Easton]

Stanley,

I believe the fuzzy should be reliable, but may present the user with 
more matches than you wish them to see.  I can't remember if I've tried 
this, but you may be able to use a fuzzy browse that also incorporates 
"drop" processing (specified within the browse lookup command) to drop 
records from showing in the browse that don't match the desired pattern 
exactly. I think this method would not be any slower than using 
processing to parse each record to determine if the desired pattern is 
present - it would likely be faster.  I think it's worth exploring.

Bruce

On 10/21/19 10:25 AM, Stan-Lyn, Stanley Barnett via Filepro-list wrote:
> Hi Don,
>
> Its been over 20 years since I’ve tried using a fuzzy search.  Not sure why I abandoned yet.  Have you found it to be reliable, meaning you will always get the correct matches?  Would it return records containing a string reliably, as I have never expected it to do that at all.  In the meantime, I will look at it again.  Speed is going to be very important for this use case.  Image a clerk entering a 20 line item invoice where they would be doing a search in each line item…  I feel a lot of user pain…   What has been your experience?
>
> Thanks,
> Stanley
>
>
>
> From: Don Becker <don at donstacklehawaii.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2019 2:30 AM
> To: Stan-Lyn, Stanley Barnett <stanley at stanlyn.com>
> Subject: Retrieving information from lookup file
>
> Hi Stanley,
>
> Regarding your need to retrieve data from a long field, have you tried doing a fuzzy browse look up?
> You can specify the number of records to list in the browse.
>
> The draw back is that if your file is large, it may take a few seconds to display your information.
>
> Don Becker
>
> (808) 554-8565
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