i really need help!!!!please!!!

Not enought info., wich kind of files are you talking about?, are you planning to use a database?

You can search tru the file with utilities like grep or you can use databases with some keywords (words that are important to the document, in sort of way like html does).

check on the net about grep, may be of some help.

You also can load the file in an object and search tru it.

how can i use databases with some keywords (words that are important to the document, in sort of way like html does)?

that's why i'm asking for the coding...i just dunno how to use the keyword thing....how the html do that??

You might try a look around www.mvps.org

The VB and VBA sections are very helpful

Sorry more info needed, you are using databases, its OK, how much do you know about reading a database?, do you know SQL?, wich database is used?

In SQL you can obtain the data with a select statment.

Select * from DATABASE_NAME where KEYWORD like '%,cat,%'

Use separator "," to be sure that is not catalog or something else insteed of cat.

but in the VisData from VB6 doesn't work (at least my version), so if doesn't work, you have to come across all records and use an instr function to check is such string is there.

thanx doug g!!!

and for Darius....

i'm not using the sql...

i'm using microsoft access with the vb....and i'm new with vb...

is that mean that i have to type all the keyword inside the vb coding...?

do you mean i have to put all the dictionary keywords content in the string coding?

my assignment are like this....

i have to do a system at my library which is the system is about a search engine for the magazines ....

let's say...if a student want to find an article about drugs....he/she do not have to go through all the magazines in the library....only to find an article about drugs...

so, he/she just has to type the keyword "drug" in my system search engine....and....then, my system will lead he/she to find the article in certain magazines...

so...he/she not wasting the time ...