[clug] Looking for string indexing library

[Jepri]

Richard wrote:
> Jepri wrote:
> 
>> I've got a list of city names (approx 3 million) and I need to write 
>> some C code to search through them all quickly.
>>
>> I'm accessing them by by packing them all into a file (with null 
>> termination), and then mmaping the file.
>>
>> So the string indexing library would have to accept pointers to the 
>> strings, not copy them into some internal store, be able to do 
>> substring lookups, and ideally be able to return a key or index value 
>> for the string it finds.  Even better would be if it could save its 
>> index and hot-start from that.
> 
> 
> 
> Not that this is really news to you, but I'd be doing this in Perl... :P

I'd love to do this in Perl, but this is a support library to be linked 
into other apps... and only C can do that.

I considered embedding Perl, but pulling a few megs of interpreter into 
a 100kb library is a bit much, even for me.


> 
> Richard
> 
> P.S.: Sorry if this comes in HTML, I'm still taking my new client 
> (Thunderbird).

Looks just fine and texty here.