search string in html files in iphone

Question

Hello I am very new to iphone.In my iphone application there are about hundred html files.I would like to search a string that the user enters in all these hundred html files and return the files that contain the string specified. Is there any way that i could attain this in iphone?

Please forward your valuable suggestions.

Thanks in advance:)

Answer 1

Searching directly from the filesystem may be possible, but will be tremendously processor intensive. I recommend that you add the searchable contents of the files into a Sqlite database, or use a full-text search library like Lucene, or both.