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/* Say this logfile contains:
 * CSV style: search string, time (unix), ip (integer)
 *
 * Alice,1267773881,2147651708
 * Bono,1267774881,2147651708
 * Charles,1267775881,1175563058
 *
 * and the CSVLog class has a readLine() method which retrieves a single line from the CSVLog and returns null when at EOF
 */
private CSVLog logfile;
 
//an application repeatedly calls this function that searches through the search log for search suggestions for autocompletion
public Set<String> suggestSearches(String search)
{
   Set<String> searches = new HashSet<String>();
    
   //construct regex from user's string   //the regex matches valid lines and the grouping characters will limit the returned regex to the search string
   String regex = "^(" + search + "),[0-9]+?,[0-9]+?$";
   Pattern p = Pattern.compile(regex);
   String s;
   while ((s = logfile.readLine()) != null) { //gets a single line from the logfile
       Matcher m = p.matcher(s);
       if (m.find()) {
           String found = m.group(1);
           searches.add(found);
       }
   }
        
   return searches;
}