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Hi
We come across a lot many contrls which have following capability.
when we type a the control enlists all the words starting with a
when we type ab the control enlists all the words starting with ab
when we type abc the control enlists all the words starting with abc
etc.
As we keep on typing the control enlists all the words that
closely matches the typed letters.
in programming world what is the term to describe this chracterstic.
what are the algorithms / techniques used to give such a capability
By: ulhas on May 13, 2007
at 4:25 pm
That’s called auto complete, it’s done by searching a dictionary and returning all words that start with abc… to the list after a few seconds (so that it doesn’t try to query the dictionary too much and crash).
By: devinmoore on June 7, 2007
at 6:35 pm