Kragen Sitaker <kragen@[...].com>  wrote in message news:<83it5giuy2.fsf@[...].org>...
>  coolslife@[...].com (coolslife) writes:
>  > I saw that lots of people have implemented their own version of grep
>  > and most have called it "pygrep". (Am I right about that?). Since this
>  > is a resource consuming activity,  does anyone have any idea what
>  > might be a optimum way to implement this?
>  
>  See "NR-grep: A Fast and Flexible Pattern Matching Tool", by Gonzalo
>  Navarro, at http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~gnavarro/ps/spe01.ps.gz for how
>  to search text fast.


Thanx for your replies.

I own the 1st Edition of that book. SO I guess I will have to go look
up @ a book store.

the MR-grep is a nice article.but I am looking for a simple grep.

are there any other resources I can look up?
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