A formula that speeds up searching for text. Instead of comparing each character in the target area, the pointer is moved ahead by several bytes based on the last non-matching characters. THIS ...

" The Boyer-Moore string searching algorithm is a best choice for many problems in which a pattern of length m is to be matched in a text of length n, for small alphabets or long pattems. A recent ...

I need one. I have a source string of generaly unknown (although known to be less than 100 characters) content, and I need to match it against a 5mb file of likewise-arranged strings (all less than ...