[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bart Lateur) writes:

> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 10:38:29 -0500, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>
>>Has anyone developed an implementation of the well-known bitstring
>>algorithm?  Basically you convert your data strings to bitstrings, AND
>>the two, and look for the longest match.
>
> Maybe it's just me, but that doesn't feel right. If you AND two
> bitstrings, you loose information.
>
> I'd rather look into XOR, and look for the longest string of null bytes
> in the result.

Sorry, I meant XOR of course.  I was not thinking.

Thanks
Ted

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