Re: string search?

Bertram Trabant said:

Hello, Im working on a little LAN game in the style of old text-only
MUD's and would need to find a way to search for a string in a text
file (for example for usernames). I know it works in the way of looking
for the first letter, if matches the second and so on, but don't know
how to write it. Any suggestions?

Look up "Boyer-Moore" or "Knuth-Morris-Pratt".

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