Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed
Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed
- Subject: Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed
- From: Michael Ash <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:04:40 -0400
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Marcel Weiher <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Apr 16, 2009, at 18:59 , Michael Ash wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:47 PM, WT <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> since he'll be dealing with the string's raw bytes, won't Miles have to
>>> manually add a null byte to terminate the search string?
>>
>> The strnstr() function takes a length, and can thus be safely used on
>> buffers which contain no NUL byte.
>
> As far as I can tell it only takes one length, and that's for the string to
> be searched, so he will have to NULL-terminate the search string (which is
> what WT was talking about as far as I can tell). Well that would be the
> case if strnstr() were actually useful for him, which I guess it isn't.
Yes, my bad. I thought he meant the string to be searched.
I like the terminology "needle" and "haystack" for these things. Hard
to get mixed up that way, and it seems to be nearly standard usage.
Anyway, carry on.
Mike
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