Re: Endless endianness annoyance

From: Randy Presuhn (rpresuhn@peer.com)
Date: Wed Dec 03 1997 - 13:38:03 EST


Hi -

> To: Multiple Recipients of <unicode@unicode.org>
> From: Mark Leisher <mleisher@crl.nmsu.edu>
> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 08:22:58 -0800 (PST)
> Subject: Endless endianness annoyance
...
> What would you do?
...

Rather than byte-swapping the text to be searched, byte-swap the search
pattern. Works fine for simple patterns/alternatives, fails miserably
for ranges. :-)

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