It's called a full-text search.

In Clipper (the xBase compiler) world, there was a commercial add-on

library for just this purpose. :)

On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Sytze de Boer <sytze.kiss@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a large stock file (say 10,000 records)

> I only have a vague idea what I'm searching for

> So, I may have a variable like

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