Google Interview Question for Software Engineer / Developers






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getting ISBN number is like performing grep on all of the files for possible match. Otherwise, regex can be handled in program itself (java pattern-match, or c++0x boost library)

for storing, trie might be a good option.

- anon July 08, 2011 | Flag Reply
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You will probably need a distributed architecture to do it fast, distributing the billions of files on clusters and then use some algorithm like map-reduce to get the ISBN numbers..

- Harshal July 08, 2011 | Flag Reply


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