From: Dave (better_cs_now_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-30 19:02:33
Hello all,
I would like to programmatically search a (large) binary file for a
particular text string and get a boolean result back - either the string
appeared or it did not.
I imagine whatever I end up implementing will be platform-independent, but
I'll state anyway that I am using Visual C++.
My first thought was to use regex_search and pass it two stream iterators,
one pointing to the beginning of the file and one representing the end of
the file. Alas, this won't work since regex_search requires bidirectional
iterators, which stream iterators are not.
I would appreciate any suggestions as to how I can most efficiently and
elegantly achieve my goal. Thank you!
Dave