On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Bill McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote: > Silky: > I'm really not sure if you are just being argumentative or you failed to > read what the original request was. Winston pretty clearly stated that he > was after : > > " Filtering is filtered based on a contains for each item. So it's > essentially mimicing VS2010's contains for intellisense." > > In case you don't get that, it's a bit like if there is a display name field > and someone wants to have the list filtered by those that contain "Smith" > whether Smith be the suffix or appear *anywhere* in the string. Eg "Jane > Smith", "Smith, John" etc.
I did see that, but my reply was based on the following: I've never seen VS intellisense *actually* do "contains" checks. Maybe I missed it, or maybe I never type that way, or maybe it doesn't actually do it. Either way, it's not something I cared about, so implied that it wasn't neccessary :) If it had been a specific requirement to do that, *then* I'd agree that some sort of other system would be required, I'm not quite sure what system that would be right now. > If you really think that a Trie is the correct approach, then show us your > code. I doubt very much you can prove your assertion and am happy to bet you > won't ;) (name the charity) I'd really love to program it up but you couldn't have picked a worse time of year for it; in just over 1 month I will have time :) -- silky http://www.programmingbranch.com/
