Inconsistent behavior...

[xbury.cs at clearstream.com]

Here's an extremely fast search function.
The function filters lines from a variable (olist) containing a string...

function FilterLines olist,str
 set the wholematches to false
 put 1 into thisline
  put "" into nulist
  repeat while thisline > 0
    set cursor to busy
    
    put LineOffset(str,olist) into thisline
    put line thisline of olist & return after nulist
    delete line 1 to thisline of olist
    if olist is empty then exit repeat
    
  end repeat
  return nulist
end FilterLines

my olist looks contains 
4/16/02,11:15 AM,BUFFET,F,543923,15571
4/16/02,11:15 AM,BUFFET,E,475933,53211
4/16/02,11:15 AM,BUFFET,D,441937,31518
4/16/02,11:15 AM,BUFFET,C,15,14
4/12/02,12:51 PM,BUFFET,F,543923,40982
4/12/02,12:51 PM,BUFFET,E,475933,56361
4/12/02,12:51 PM,BUFFET,D,441937,27808
4/12/02,12:51 PM,BUFFET,C,15,14

The string im searching for is ","&"F" &","

When I do the search, with wholematches = true (first line in FilterLines)
only the first line is found... If I set wholematches to false, it finds all
the lines...
Of course, I tried to change the searchstring to "BUFFET,F," but there is no
change.

Can anyone see the problem? I can't search for F alone...
Changing the comma in the lists would mean too much programming changes in
my application...

Why can't this work???

Thanks for any help...
Xavier



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