I need more speed Baby!

What is faster?:
Searching for a word through multiple text files (Additionally which is faster: all the files in their own directories, or all in the same directory?)

or

Searching for a word through one file that is the sum of all the other files by stepping through it one "group" at a time?

Brewguru99

Hey? What? No takers?

Brewguru99

The answer is - it depends. Single InStr can be a bit faster, but reading big file in memory can cause swapping, so it can be slower.

I think grouping files is not good idea.

In addition to Bruno's post - you'll also find that using the VB 'Like' command is a lot quicker to see if a text string contains the text you're looking for than using InStr (although it only tells you if it's there, it won't give you a position in the text so you'll still need InStr).


Chris Eastwood

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Hey, excellent Tip. We VBers need more speed with strings and every Tip is welcome.

"Like" works great with case-insensitive searches - Instr is slow when vbTextCompare option is used.