Does anyone know how to speed up the regular expression search? If I do a simple text search irt is very fast. But as soon as I do a regular expression search it slows to a totally unacceptable level for what I'm trying to do.

Thanks in advance,
Paul

If I perform this query, ".*cmd:.*text" it takes forever to do the file search. By forever, I mean nothing changes on the screen.

Conversely, doing a standard query of: "cmd: + text" goes very fast, but the end results some times isn't what I want because "cmd:" might appear on one line of the file and "text" appears on another line. I want to know when both pieces of text appear on the same line with the "cmd:" occurring first. The Regex expression would produce those results, but it takes way too long to process.

Paul

As a follow-up to this, assuming that the Regex search cannot be sped up, is there a way to perform an "OR" type of query? If I could do that, then I could provide the possible things that could be between the "cmd:" and the "text", like:
"cmd://Main/OpenDialog" or "cmd://Form/OpenDialog" or "cmd://View/OpenDialog"

Thanks,
Paul

How would I do that if I was using a command line version? Here is the snippet of the batch file I use. The compare string is passed into the batch file as a parameter:

-q "cmd: + %1" -o c:\xxx\yyy\zzz\Lookup,csv -start

Are you saying that this would work:

-q "cmd://Main/%1" "cmd://Form/%1" "cmd://View/%1" -o c:\xxx\yyy\zzz\Lookup,csv -start

Thanks,
Paul

Doing the Regex the way you suggested works fine. It goes through all of the files quickly which is the goal.

Thanks,
Paul