Title: How to perform a binary seach on a TListview
function ListviewBinarySearch(listview: TListview; const Item: string;
var Index: Integer): Boolean;
var
First, last, pivot, res: Integer;
begin
Assert(Assigned(listview));
Assert(Length(item) 0);
Result := False;
Index := 0;
if listview.Items.Count = 0 then Exit;
First := 0;
last := listview.Items.Count - 1;
repeat
pivot := (First + last) div 2;
res := lstrcmp(PChar(item), PChar(listview.Items[pivot].Caption));
if res = 0 then
begin
{ Found the item, return its index and exit. }
Index := pivot;
Result := True;
Break;
end { If }
else if res 0 then
begin
{ Item is larger than item at pivot }
First := pivot + 1;
end { If }
else
begin
{ Item is smaller than item at pivot }
last := pivot - 1;
end;
until last ;
Index := First;
end; { ListviewBinarySearch }