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William D Clinger wrote:
Per Bothner wrote: > Random accesses to a position in a string that has not > been previously accessed is not in itself useful. Untrue. The Boyer-Moore algorithm for fast string searching uses random accesses to positions that have not been previously accessed [1].
Yes, but I think you can implement this for UTF-8 or UTF-16 strings using offsets to the underlying bytes or shorts. I don't think that you need character offsets.
Regards, Alan -- Dr Alan Watson Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica Universidad Astronómico Nacional de México