Hello,
I'm currently looking to provide a way for users to search a large list of strings (at least 400,000) using wildcards and possibly provide auto completion (this is not essential).
Something like
*test
Would return all the strings that end in "test" for example.
I've investigated looking into different types of searches including a trie setup, but I can't tell if these provide wildcard functionality or if they need an actual prefix to work with?
A few source code examples I've downloaded seem to require a prefix.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
You need to create inverted indexes or use a component like lucene :
https://lucenenet.apache.org/
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or my article hOOt :
hOOt - full text search engine
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Please, read Sergey's comment to the question and follow below links:
How to: Search Strings Using String Methods (C# Programming Guide)
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How to: Search Strings Using Regular Expressions (C# Programming Guide)
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