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String processing techniques

By Stuart E. Madnick

Communications of the ACM, Vol. 10 No. 7, Pages 420-424
10.1145/363427.363444

The internal organization of string processing systems is discussed. Six techniques for data structures are presented and evaluated on the basis of: (1) creation of strings; (2) examination of strings; and (3) alteration of strings. Speed of operation, storage requirements, effect on paging, and programmer convenience are also considered. One of the techniques, single-word linked blocks, is used in an example demonstrating an implementation of a SNOBOL string processing language on an IBM System/360.

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