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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am asking this here because it seems like a
lot of you do more then filepro. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have an inventory file (invy.txt) with about
22,000 records in it. each line in the (invy.txt) file contains data like the
following.</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2> (VEND
UPC# MFG# DESCRIPTION ETC...). I have another file
that is just a list of image names with about 12000 items in it "images.txt".
looks like this (VEN_UPC.JPG) example= "pen_55555.jpg".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> The programmer I hired to do this is
attempting to build arrays for each letter in the alphabet on the (vend_upc) and
load in the appropriate records from my invy.txt file. He is then looking into
the array that matches the first letter of the image we are looking for
from my (images.txt) file.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It is not very fast. I know nothing about visual
basic programming but there has to be a faster way. I have seen something
about text searches that say they index the text file somehow. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any help is always appreciated</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank You in Advance</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mike Fedko</FONT> </DIV>
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