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William D Clinger scripsit: > 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]. Another use case, archaic as it may seem, is still important: processing fixed-length fields in text files. -- At the end of the Metatarsal Age, the dinosaurs John Cowan abruptly vanished. The theory that a single jcowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx catastrophic event may have been responsible www.reutershealth.com has been strengthened by the recent discovery of www.ccil.org/~cowan a worldwide layer of whipped cream marking the Creosote-Tutelary boundary. --Science Made Stupid