On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 03:20:27PM -0700, Alan Young wrote:
> > I'm afraid I'm not getting what you mean by "unique occurrence"... Why is
> > there only one unique occurrence of 'abc', when the string contains 'abc'
> > four times? Why are there two unique occurrences of 'de', but only one of
> > 'bc'? Why are there no unique occurences at all of 'abcd'?
>
> I'm probably not stating myself well (I'm known for that). Maybe
> unique occurrence isn't what I'm really trying to say.
>
> If we have a stream of text (say we have a file that is several 10s of
> million bytes in size) and we're limited to how much we can load into
> memory at a time, or we're recieving it over a connection of some kind
> (e.g., serial or tcp) and we have a varying number of delimiters, with
> a varying delimiter length (delimiter1, delim2, del3). The value of
> the delimiter is the delimiter and an unspecified number of bytes, up
> to the next known delimiter. (value of delimiter 'del2' in the string
> 'del1abcdel2def' is 'del2def'.
>
> I don't understand exactly why this format was decided upon, this was
> the poser handed to my co-worker and this is what he came up with as a
> proof of concept. Of course, this requires that no delimiter can be
> a substring of another.
>
> Better?
It's making more sense now. Thank you for taking the time to explain it to
me!
Ronald
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