[Haskell-cafe] String search algorithms

[Bayley, Alistair]

> From: Henning Thielemann [mailto:lemming at henning-thielemann.de] 
> 
> But I'm curious if you really need the index. Working with indexes on 
> lists is quite inefficient. E.g. if you want to replace 
> substrings you 
> may want to use this implementation:


I'm not mutating the list, but I am extracting sublists. I'm toying with
porting FIT and I'm starting with the Parse class, as recommended (
http://fit.c2.com/wiki.cgi?TipsForCoreImplementors ). They warn against
using a generic parser:

  "Parse is the internal representation of the test data. Don't be seduced
by generalized html/xml parsers. This one has unique features. Make it work.
Consider replacing it only after you've used this one a while."

Their parser is in Java, and makes heavy use of String.indexOf(), and I'm
just trying to port it more-or-less as-is. I appreciate that'll be somewhat
inefficient, but until I understand all of the wrinkles in their
implementation, I'll take the simplest approach.

Alistair.

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