Luis Parravicini wrote: > Hi > > A few weeks after Ruby Quiz 139 I found myself needing again to do a > binary search in a big text file. So I converted the solution > submitted to OOP and released it as a rubygem. > > With this gem, you create first an index of the file you need to > search and then do the searches. More info at > http://binarysearch.rubyforge.org/ > > Bye, > Sorry but I guess the gem's name is somewhat inadequate. This is not a binary search library, but a text indexing and searching library which happens to employ a binary search algorithm. So you essentially reserve this gem name from some possible real binsearch library... mortee