From: brangdonj@googlemail.com   
      
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   francis.glassborow@btinternet.com (Francis Glassborow) wrote:   
   > As a matter of interest, what container would you suggest be used   
   > for substantial amounts of text (e.g. a 500 page book)?   
      
   A vector of paragraphs, where each paragraph is a vector of   
   characters. (Or maybe a string; but I'm not a fan of std::string.)   
      
   A paragraph may sound like a large unit, but in practice it takes   
   almost no time to shuffle up a few thousand characters because of   
   memory locality.   
      
   There is an argument that you should not divide the text into   
   segments based on the text contents, because someone might write a   
   single paragraph that's 500 pages long. In practice I've not found   
   this to be a problem.   
      
   -- Dave Harris, Nottingham, UK.   
      
      
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