Search a file skiping whitespace

Johann MacDonagh johann.macdonagh.no at spam.gmail.com
Sat Jul 16 13:47:06 PDT 2011


On 7/16/2011 4:43 PM, Johann MacDonagh wrote:
> On 7/16/2011 4:41 PM, Willy Martinez wrote:
>> auto needle = boyerMooreFinder(args[1]);
>
> I'm confused. Boyer-Moore is when you want to find two or more elements
> efficiently in a range. When you create a BoyerMooreFinder you give it a
> range of elements it should search for. When you give it args[1] you are
> giving it a string which is immutable(char)[], or a range of characters.
> So if args[1] = "123" you're saying "search for 1, 2, or 3".
>
> Are you actually trying to search for multiple elements at the same time?
>

Ugh, I'm dumb. I misread the documentation.

Instead of defining "needle", just pass arg[1] into your call to find.


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