At 5:54 PM -0400 4/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have obtained a dictionary in the form of a few hundred thousand
words in a text file. I don't need definitions, I just need to be
able to see if a word exists.
The entire file is 3.9 meg. Since I won't really need to change it,
I was thinking that it would be convienent if I could just embed the
dictionary in my app.
Now for the questions: If I use a REALSQLDatabase, will I be able
to read it while it's embedded in the application? Is there another
way of building my dictionary into my app? The lookup process needs
to be extremely fast - which is why I thought about a database first.
If it were me, I'd just drag the text file directly into the project.
Then at app startup (or better yet, the first time you need to look
up a word), split the file on its end-of-line delimiter and stuff the
words into a Dictionary object (as keys, with a dummy value like
True).
Stuffing the dictionary with 3.9 MB of data might take a second or
so, but then lookup (using Dictionary.HasKey) will be blazingly fast.
Also, since you know ahead of time how many words you'll be stuffing,
you can make the stuffing go faster by pre-sizing the dictionary
(i.e., assign a suitably large BinCount before you start loading in
values).
Best,
- Joe
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Joe Strout -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Available for custom REALbasic programming and training.
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