The book is an absolute beauty. Most of the routines are written in Pascal or pseudo code and the clarity of Pascal is still unbeatable.

Do you guys really find this stuff useful? I'm missing something I guess. When would you use this?

more goodies:

http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~mac/index.html

Maxime Crochemore has been at it for a while; we wrote another two books on string processing as well.

But for this book, don't forget the table of contents; PDF above starts at page 3.

http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~mac/REC/B1.html#toc

We? May I thank you for the typesetting and English then. Though, knowing him, I suspect it was WR's share.

Wow! I must be a pretentious prick. That "we" in there was completely erroneous. It should read "he".

Awesome!