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I have a large text file that I need to search for certain substrings and I would like to use the speed-up that TextSearch gives. Unfortunately, with TextSearch queries will only match entire words:

f = Export["~/test.txt", "1234 1234"]; TextSearch[CreateSearchIndex@f, SearchQueryString["*23*"]]

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I'd prefer not to use StringCases as it is very slow on the large document. Is there some way around this?

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  • $\begingroup$ Is it not Import? $\endgroup$ Commented May 3, 2018 at 23:32
  • $\begingroup$ And then after import... $\endgroup$ Commented May 3, 2018 at 23:32
  • $\begingroup$ Try maybe "23~" as the search string. ~ is supposed to indicate a close but non-exact match. It does work in your simple case, but I don't know how well it would perform on a real example. $\endgroup$ Commented May 4, 2018 at 3:15

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You may use SearchQueryString in TextSearch.

f = Export["~/test.txt", "helloworld"]; TextSearch[CreateSearchIndex@f, SearchQueryString["hello*"]]

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Hope this helps.

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  • $\begingroup$ Thanks @Edmund! See my update, we've almost got it I think $\endgroup$ Commented May 4, 2018 at 1:50

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