On 4/29/2010 5:38 AM, Karin Lagesen wrote:
Hello.

I have approx 83 million strings, all 14 characters long. I need to be
able to take another string and find out whether this one is present
within the 83 million strings.

If the 'other string' is also 14 chars, so that you are looking for exact matches, and you are doing this repeatedly, you might look to match hash values first.

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