RE: sequential search

From: "Beard, Frank Randolph CIV" <frank.beard@navy.mil>
To: "comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway" <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Subject: RE: sequential search
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:09:14 -0500
Date: 2003-03-10T08:09:14-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.8.1047301771.32742.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> (raw)

There's good 'ol fashioned Ada.Text_Io.Get_Line.  Create a buffer
of sufficient size.  Call Get_Line to read the file line by line, and
then parse the buffer looking for the particular word (maintaining a
line counter as you go).

If your application is interactive where the user will make multiple
queries, you might be better off reading the entire file into a memory
buffer and then parsing it.  If speed and efficiency are not paramount,
then the first approach will probably suffice.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: David

Does anyone know how a sequential/linear search is created under a txt
file (to find a specific word line by line).  I have an idea how it is
done using an array, but not under a file.  Any ideas?

Thanks.
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