Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > Walter Bright wrote: > > Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >> Oh, one more thing: doing mixed-width searches would require decoding. > > > > Or a conversion before the loop starts of the search term. > > That triggers memory allocation plus the same cost. It's not likely to > work any better. > > Andrei
Exactly. Please don't go down the route that Microsoft did for regex case insensitive searching (at least when I last looked at it) - they made the *input string* all lower case... D'oh! Regards, Ben