Hi Stewart,
Sorry for the delay, I've been away for a bit.
>The search method you are refering to is know as a binary search. If you let
>me know what you are trying to do I may be able to help. I missed the start
of >this thread.
Basically I have a long list of words, alphabetically sorted, and I wish to
find a particular word in the list. My hope is to find a new method which
would be faster than the binary search method.
-John
John
<<My hope is to find a new method which would be faster than the binary search
method.>>
The only method that I can think of off the top of my head is to use a "Hash
table". There is a bit of an overhead in setting up the table, but once its
set up it is very very fast. It works best if you are doing a lot of lookups.
Let me know if this is the case and I will explain how it works.
Stew