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From: sam@neoucom.UUCP (Scott A. Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Hashing....
Message-ID: <1731@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 29 Sep 89 12:05:33 GMT
References: <4345@internal.Apple.COM> <1728@neoucom.UUCP> <9690@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: sam@neoucom.UUCP (Scott A. Mason)
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In article <9690@chinet.chi.il.us> henry@chinet.chi.il.us (Henry C. Schmitt) writes:
>I don't mean to be rude but "Ack! Thpppt!"  Creeping along looking
>for the first character is just about the worst way to find a
>string!  (It does, however have the advantage of being simple!)

Well, Excuuuuuuse Me! I only offered A solution to the query, stating that
it was not a very pretty routine, but it worked and was easy to understand.
(It also took a very short time to write)
Maybe next time I'll think twice about posting something that works, and
post a fancy algorithm that I haven't tested (or coded in a real
language).
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