Searching through binary/text files efficiently

Mikey mikeythek at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 13:27:30 EDT 2007


I don't know how long it will take to do this using RR's built-in
search function, but the most efficient algorithm in general is the
Boyer-Moore-Sunday algorithm for doing general text processing.  The
problem you are going to have is that BMS assumes that it is searching
normal text space.  However, you can use the concepts of BMS to write
a very fast search algorithm.

If you need help, please let me know.



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