Date:         Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:19:30 -0400
Reply-To:     "Richard A. DeVenezia" <radevenz@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Richard A. DeVenezia" <radevenz@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: Looking for general ideas on how to approach a user interface
              sel              ection process

David Fickbohm wrote:

> Finally this data will be output as a csv or a dbf or a txt file.  The
> eventual idea is to let users, computer literate but not programmers,
> do the selection.
>
> I am looking for thoughts on how to approach the selection process;

You haven't described or given an example of 'the selection process'
Is it selecting N cities out of 39,092
Or is it selecting M phrases out of N*93**2 phrases (assuming prefix and
suffix can be applied independently); N*93 phrases if prefix and suffix are
applied in a one-to-one relation (in which case I ask why are the prefix and
suffix in separate tables)
Or is it selecting matches to the M phrases from some yet unnamed table.

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