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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 30 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

#pragma warning(disable: 4100 4786)
#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <list>

class CIVStringSet : public std::vector<std::string>
{
    public:
        CIVStringSet( WORD wInitialWidth = 64 ) ;  // Initial width of FSM
        virtual ~CIVStringSet() ;

        bool        Add( LPCTSTR pszWord ) ;                     // a single word
        bool        Add( const std::string & rstrWord ) ;        // a single word
        int         Add( LPCTSTR pszWords, LPCTSTR pszDelims ) ; // multiple words, delimited with chars from pszDelims
        int         Add( LPCTSTR pszzWords, int nWords ) ;       // nWords words, each 0 term'd, with extra 0 at end
        int         Add( std::vector<std::string> astrWords ) ;  // all the elements of an array of strings
        int         Add( std::list<std::string> lstrWords ) ;    // all the elements of a list of strings
                    
        UINT        FindFirstIn( std::string strText, int & rnFirst ) ; // Begin iteration
        UINT        FindNext( int & rnNext ) ;                          // Continue interation

        typedef std::pair<int,UINT>              CWordPosPair ;     // first is index of word in array, second is position in text
        typedef std::list< std::pair<int,UINT> > CWordPosPairList ; // list of pairs to be returned by FindAllIn
        size_t      FindAllIn( std::string strText, CWordPosPairList & 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
        std::string 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
} ;

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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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