Re: How to achieve scalability

Thanks, Lyle.  I didn't know that regular expressions were available at all

in VBA, but after some checking around I see the reference for the VBS 
regular expressions library. 

So, basically, you're recommending that I step through the recordset like 
now but using regular expessions objects to perform the operations instead

of the VBA functions?  Or is there an even more efficient way?

Thanks,

Carlos

lyle fairfield <lyle.fairfield@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> The functions you name are old and stale; they were always
> inefficient. My guess is that Regular Expressions would solve your
> problem and be hundreds, possibly thousands of times faster than
> straight VBA code. Of course, those who don't know Regular Expressions
> may disagree. No doubt, initially Regular Expressions can be
> bewildering. But a little work and a modi*** of patience can result in
> the tedious being made simple, and the impossible, only challenging.
>