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From: jimc@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Jim Cathey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Hashing....
Message-ID: <2634@iscuva.ISCS.COM>
Date: 3 Oct 89 03:05:38 GMT
References: <4345@internal.Apple.COM> <1728@neoucom.UUCP>
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In article <1728@neoucom.UUCP> sam@neoucom.UUCP (Scott A. Mason) writes:
>In article <4345@internal.Apple.COM> athos@apple.com (Rick Eames) writes:
>>I am a relatively new programmer and I am searching for a good algorithim 
>>for finding one pattern in a source string...

>It may not be a hashing function, but it does find a substring in a given
>string.  Kind of a quick and dirty type utility one writes when needed...

For a simple byte searcher that ignores international issues consider the
Munger Toolbox call.  

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