Basically I want to develop a Address lookup(part of my project) using C# (and I can use SQL if necessary). I have a very large text file which have all the UK address and postcodes. Addresses needs to be looked up from this text file.
For example, as soon as a user type in the first letter of the postcode it should list all the postcodes starting with that letter and as they type in further, the list should narrow down.
Could you guys please how I can do this search very fast and list the results in a efficient way. If you guys know any methods and technologies pls do advice.
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For performance issues the first thing to do would be, importing the text files into a database.
On typing you can query the affected fields with “where Field LIKE ‘input%’ Order by xxx” and display the result.
Depending on the amount of Data you also could load all data to your local machine and apply filters on the displayed data.
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