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khatib_b

Dictionary Hebrew/English

I am a beginner in Visual Basic 2005. I have been working on a Hebrew-English dictionary. I used the "If" statement and then the "Select Case" statement but as the dictionary grew bigger it becomes slow "about 15 seconds" looking for the first word. The following words comes very fast when I click "Search". I hope you can give an idea. I read about the Hashtable ..... I don't know, Thank you,

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7 years ago

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Wes

RE: Dictionary Hebrew/English

You don't mention where the dictionary words come from (a file?), but it sounds like you are trying to handle them all in memory. That could probably be made to work - and very fast - with the appropriate data structures and algorithms. But, before you go down that road, consider the advantages of a database. Virtually all databases include the ability to create indexes, and index technology is exceedingly advanced. (For decades, dat...

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