How to retrieve a record fast?

[ERNIE25]

Hi,

I'm new to VB. How do you retrieve a record from a file, as I used to do in my old indexed files in xBASE ?.

All I found at first, are examples with data controls that browse the file, one record at a time

thanks in advance,

Ernesto Fox

 

[tedsmith]

You have to Open #1 a fixed length file
Use Get#1,N where n is the record number
Look for sequential or random files in help CD examples

 

[tedsmith]

Also usually you put your data into a database and index it (like access.mdb) and you can do everything from there