From: Tony Williams 

On 10/18/2004 06:43 PM, Geo wrote:
[snip]
> 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++

strstr() is pretty well optimised. If you're searching for long strings in
a looong string try a search on Boyer-Moore, but for in-memory stuff
strstr() is usually faster.

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Tony

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