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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: random AT visi DOT net (Michael Bosley), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 17:50:13 +0000
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Subject: Re: Q:  How to call a function like search(sentence for string1 
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random AT NO-FREAKIN'-SPAM.visi.net (Michael Bosley) wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am writing a search function to find substrings in sentences using
> AND and OR logic and I would like to know if there is any way to do
> something like:
> 
> int result = search("This is a test sentence" for "test" AND ("this"
> OR "This"));
> 
> Any ideas?

Just an idea: Perhaps you can use regular expressions. If the user is the one 
that type the text is a little harder because you must convert the "or"/"and" 
stuff to the regex syntax. 
Advantages: You can do much more powerfull searchs.
Disadvantage: Is sloooowwww, well that depends on the reference, but is 10 
times slower than a simple search.

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