RE: Help with a searching a string within a specified word proximity

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November 8, 2011 at 7:20 pm

You could spend a whole lot of time and money on this. For example, what is a word? As well as the normal "separated by spaces" requirement, what if there is a double space somewhere? Will hyphens, carriage returns, parenthesis, brackets, braces, and other special characters be treated as spaces?

My recommendation is to NOT redevelop the proverbial wheel. See the following product, please. And, no, I don't work for them. 🙂

http://www.dtsearch.com/

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

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