How Do the Filter Routines Work?

The Index Filter APIs allow creation and setup of a filter. Filters also allow programmers to create conditional statements for the filters. The syntax for the conditional statements allows programmers to filter against literal values and against values entered at run time.

The use of index filters in programming can increase performance, especially for applications that retrieve large amounts of data and must filter that data to find the records that need to be processed.

Process flow: Using the Filter APIs in a Program