[Tutor] ideas for a simple program

[Brett Ritter]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> Or a program to find anagrams.

A great exercise in learning how different string operations perform
is to search a text file for the largest palindrome string.  I recall
running one on the Constitution where a good program could do it in
seconds and a bad program would take hours (if it didn't run out of
memory first).

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