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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: KMail's new search dialog
From:       Espen Sand <espen.sand () neo ! no>
Date:       2000-05-29 6:32:49
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On Fri, 26 May 2000, George Staikos wrote:
>On Fri, 26 May 2000, NightFlight wrote:
>> | >
>> | >Great search dialog :-))
>> |
>> | I agree! Ths is a feature I have missed for a long time.
>> 
>> What search algorithm does it use? Boyer?
>
>   I would prefer if it would be implemented using the QRegExp actually. 
>Then we don't have to worry about KMP, BM or whatever other algorithm, and we
>would get the power of regexp searches.

FYI: There is an article in this month (June) issue of C/C++ Users Jornal 
(www.cuj.com) about combining Boyer-Moore (BM) string search with 
regular expressions.


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Espen Sand

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