You could use an ADO recordset. Think of it as an in-memory array with
some useful properties and methods, including Filter. It can work
disconnected from its data source, can even be fabricated from scratch
(i.e. no data source), saved to disk (e.g. as xml) and later reopened,
can be multi-dimensional to create hierarchies (a recordset of
recordsets) etc. I rarely use arrays these days!

Jamie.

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