From: Mike N. 


>As for the string search function, that's simple as I've done it several
>times before in everything from assembler to qbasic. But I figured it's such
>a common requirement that there just might be an optimized function for this
>already. That's supposed to be one of the strengths of c++

  An efficient grep algorithm has its own interesting quirks that are
outside of typical C++ libraries: things like searching on the character of
least frequency before trying a string match, all the while being able to
span buffer boundaries.

>> Yes, there is. It's called Google, and you can find it from www.google.com
>.
>Ah! I've heard of this before. Maybe I'll try that first .

  The only thing I hate about online help is that it's so slow.  And I'd
like to meet the weenie that made Office 2003 default to web-based help
instead of online help.   Even on a fast network connection, it's about 10
seconds slower.    What were they thinking ... that the help changes so
often that it's important to see only the latest version of help?   Luckily
they let you turn that feature off.

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