OpenEuphoria

RE: ramdisk (was: Re: Changing data types Concluded)

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthew.w.lewis at saic.com> Mar 25, 2004
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Allen V Robnett wrote:

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> I am interested in the possibility of letting the user determine 
> the length of the search string by pressing <ENTER> or <TAB> after 
> entering the desired number of characters to be matched. EU seems 
> to want sequences to be assigned a value which then determines the 
> length. I am considering using a slice to truncate the original 
> sequence length at whatever the length the user indicates. Will 
> this work? Is there a better way?

I think the 'better way' may involve a new design.  What is the logic of 
how records are allocated?  Is there any structured layout behind them?  
If not, might there be a way to do this?

If the answer is still no, you could design an indexing system to help 
you look up the strings.   The fastest way would probably be a suffix 
tree (although it's going to take up a LOT of disk space for something 
this big).  I have some code to build a tree, although it wouldn't work 
for your case, because it's all done in memory, but it could be done in 
files fairly easily.  I'll see if I can get it modified in the next few 
days or so.

Matt Lewis