Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Ralph Shumaker wrote: > <Long string problem snipped> > > What on earth are you doing? > > This sounds like a bioinformatics string search. It's very much not a > brainteaser problem. There is at least one two volume set of some > whopping number of pages all about this stuff (Sorry, I don't remember > the name of the volumes). > > You should search for something like "string algorithms" with sequence > or bioinformatics thrown in for good measure.
Look up the BLAST library, also look at things like DFA's, suffix trees, etc. Lots of fun stuff in that area. Almost enough to make one want to study bioinformatics. --Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
