Fastest way to find strings in a file

Question

I have a log file that is not more than 10KB (File size can go up to 2 MB max) and I want to find if atleast one group of these strings occurs in the files. These strings w

Answer 1

You don't have much of a choice with text files when it comes to efficiency. The easiest way would definitely be to loop through each line of data. When you grab a line in a string, split it on the spaces. Then match those words to your words until you find a match. Then do whatever you need.

I don't know how to do it in c# but in vb it would be something like...

Dim yourString as string
Dim words as string()
Do While objReader.Peek() <> -1
   yourString = objReader.ReadLine()
   words = yourString.split(" ")
   For Each word in words()
      If Myword = word Then
         do stuff
      End If
   Next
Loop

Hope that helps