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A Multiple Substring Search Class: CIVStringSet

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A string array class using MFC or STL that performs very fast multiple string searches
// StringSet.H: interface for the CIVStringSet class.
//
// Written 12 June 2002 by Scot T Brennecke
// Thanks to Moishe Halibard and Moshe Rubin for their article,
//    "A Multiple Substring Search Algorithm" in the June 2002
//    edition of C/C++ Users Journal.  This class is based on
//    the algorthim therein described, but extended to return
//    all strings and use MFC classes.

#pragma once

class CIVStringSet : public CStringArray
{
    public:
        CIVStringSet( WORD wInitialWidth = 64 ) ;  // Initial width of FSM
        virtual ~CIVStringSet() ;

        bool     Add( LPCTSTR pszWord ) ;               // add a single word
        bool     Add( const CString & rstrWord ) ;      // add a single word
        int      Add( LPCTSTR pszzWords, int nWords ) ; // add nWords words, each 0 term'd, with extra 0 at end
        int      Add( CStringArray astrWords ) ;        // add all the elements of a CStringArray
        int      Add( CStringList  lstrWords ) ;        // add all the elements of a CStringList

        bool     FindFirstIn( CString strText, CString & rstrFirst ) ;    // Begin iteration
        bool     FindNext( CString & rstrNext ) ;                         // Continue interation
        int      FindAllIn( CString strText, CStringList & rlstrWords ) ; // Iterate all at once and make list

    protected:
        DWORD (* m_apnFSM)[128] ;   // Finite State Machine. Array of 128 char arrays
        size_t   m_nCurDim ;        // Dimension of allocated width of FSM
        size_t   m_nUsedCols ;      // Used portion of allocated width
        WORD     m_wMaxUsedState ;  // largest state value used
        CString  m_strSearch ;      // Current search string
        UINT     m_nCurTextChar ;   // Current position in search string

        bool     InsertWord( LPCTSTR pszWord, WORD wIndex ) ; // put the new word into the FSM for given index
        bool     SetColDim( size_t nNewDim ) ;                // set the current width to at least nNewDim columns

    private:
        // Hide several base class members that shouldn't be used
        // Using these members could cause the index numbers of strings to change, throwing
        //     off the embedded index entries in the FSM
        void SetAt( int nIndex, LPCTSTR newElement ) ;
        void SetAt( int nIndex, const CString & newElement ) ;
        void SetAtGrow( int nIndex, LPCTSTR newElement ) ;
        void SetAtGrow( int nIndex, const CString & newElement ) ;
        int Append( const CStringArray & src ) ;
        void Copy( const CStringArray & src ) ;
        void InsertAt( int nIndex, LPCTSTR newElement, int nCount = 1 ) ;
        void InsertAt( int nIndex, const CString & newElement, int nCount = 1 ) ;
        void RemoveAt( int nIndex, int nCount = 1 ) ;
        void InsertAt( int nStartIndex, CStringArray * pNewArray ) ;
} ;

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Software Developer (Senior) Microsoft
United States United States
Scot is a Sr. Escalation Engineer for the Microsoft Developer Support VS & Languages team. He helps software developers who are Microsoft customers find bugs in their own, or Microsoft's, code.

Scot spends most of his time writing, reading, or thinking about C++ software, thereby classifying him as a geek.

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