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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!DIALix!dent
- From: dent@DIALix.oz.au (Andrew Dent)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
- Subject: Re: Question on Lookup feature in FM Pro
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 00:34:39 +0800
- Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Western Australia
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- Message-ID: <1jmjav$263@DIALix.oz.au>
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- The biggest problem with lookups in FM Pro is that they are UNRELIABLE!!!!!
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- This (now that I've got your attention) stems from the matching of words.
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- eg: if file schools contains (IN ORDER)
- St Columba's Primary School
- St Columba's School
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- then a lookup to schools of "St Columba's School" will return the FIRST
- of the entries.
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- So will a lookup like "School St".
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- The matching is to the first entry matching ALL the WORDS in the lookup
- field.
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- Be VERY careful about the implications of this one - I was hoping FM v2 would
- have a fix - it doesn't.
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- Andy Dent (A.D. Software - Mac & VAX programming)
- 94 Bermuda Dve, BALLAJURA Western Australia 6066
- Phone/Fax: 09 249 2719 (local) +619 249 2719 (International)
- Internet: dent@DIALix.oz.au Compuserve: 100033,3241
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