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Re: Fast String search algorithm

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Subject Re: Fast String search algorithm
Date 2011-12-17 09:26 -0800
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On 12/16/2011 10:58 AM, Tom Anderson wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Roedy Green wrote:
>
>> Let's say I had a million records each with a text field. I wanted to
>> find all records that contained a given substring. Are there fast
>> algorithms to do that or do you have to scan the whole thing linearly?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_index
>

An implementation of an inverted index is often called a search engine.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_%28computing%29>

One of the best known implementations is a web search engine.  Alt 
Vista, Yahoo, and Google are well known examples.

There's a Java based search engine I happen to know about, Lucene.

<http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html>

This is a roll-your-own library, but it has a lot of features.  Beyond a 
cursory reading of the documentation I can't really say much about it 
unfortunately.

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Fast String search algorithm Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-16 10:08 -0800
  Re: Fast String search algorithm Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-12-16 18:58 +0000
    Re: Fast String search algorithm markspace <-@.> - 2011-12-17 09:26 -0800
      Re: Fast String search algorithm Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-12-17 21:07 -0800
  Re: Fast String search algorithm Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> - 2011-12-16 20:07 +0100
    Re: Fast String search algorithm Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-16 13:32 -0800
  Re: Fast String search algorithm Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-12-16 12:12 -0800
    Re: Fast String search algorithm glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-12-16 21:22 +0000
  Re: Fast String search algorithm Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-16 22:20 -0500
    Re: Fast String search algorithm Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-16 21:39 -0800
  Re: Fast String search algorithm Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-17 16:15 +0100
  Re: Fast String search algorithm Travers Naran <tnaran@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 09:17 -0800

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