6. A text pattern matching system for identifying ones of a plurality of documents in a document text base which satisfy a query, each of said documents comprising a series of ordered text symbols, with each text symbol being represented by a text token, each query comprising a series of query symbols, with each query symbol being represented by a query token, said text pattern matching system comprising: A. a memory including a series of addressable storage locations, each storage location storing data including one of said text tokens or one of said query tokens; B. a processor for performing processing operations in connection with data stored in said memory; and C. a controller for controlling the operations of said processor, the controller including: i. a match token generator control module for enabling said processor to generate a match token for each text token whose text symbol corresponds to a query token's query symbol, the processor associating each match token with (i) document identifier information identifying one of said documents containing the text symbol corresponding to the query symbol, (ii) text symbol sequence information identifying the position of the text symbol in the series of text symbols which comprise the document, and (iii) query symbol sequence information identifying the position of the query symbol in the series of query symbols which comprise the query, the processor storing each match token so generated in the memory; ii. a match token processing control module for enabling said processor to sort in successive storage locations in the memory the match tokens generated during processing in response to said match token generating module according to the document identifier information and the text symbol sequence information associated therewith; and iii. a query processing control module for enabling said processor to use the match tokens as sorted during processing in response to said match token processing control module, the processor using the query symbol sequence information associated with the match tokens to identify sequences of match tokens relating to a query which satisfy the query, the processor using the document identifier information of match tokens in the identified sequences of match tokens to identify the documents that satisfy the query.
6. A text pattern matching system for identifying ones of a plurality of documents in a document text base which satisfy a query, each of said documents comprising a series of ordered text symbols, with each text symbol being represented by a text token, each query comprising a series of query symbols, with each query symbol being represented by a query token, said text pattern matching system comprising: A. a memory including a series of addressable storage locations, each storage location storing data including one of said text tokens or one of said query tokens; B. a processor for performing processing operations in connection with data stored in said memory; and C. a controller for controlling the operations of said processor, the controller including: i. a match token generator control module for enabling said processor to generate a match token for each text token whose text symbol corresponds to a query token's query symbol, the processor associating each match token with (i) document identifier information identifying one of said documents containing the text symbol corresponding to the query symbol, (ii) text symbol sequence information identifying the position of the text symbol in the series of text symbols which comprise the document, and (iii) query symbol sequence information identifying the position of the query symbol in the series of query symbols which comprise the query, the processor storing each match token so generated in the memory; ii. a match token processing control module for enabling said processor to sort in successive storage locations in the memory the match tokens generated during processing in response to said match token generating module according to the document identifier information and the text symbol sequence information associated therewith; and iii. a query processing control module for enabling said processor to use the match tokens as sorted during processing in response to said match token processing control module, the processor using the query symbol sequence information associated with the match tokens to identify sequences of match tokens relating to a query which satisfy the query, the processor using the document identifier information of match tokens in the identified sequences of match tokens to identify the documents that satisfy the query. 9. A text pattern matching system as defined in claim 6 in which said query processor control module includes: A. a match token query begin sequence identification control element for enabling said processor to identify one of said match tokens whose query symbol sequence information identifies the match token as having a query symbol corresponding to an initial query symbol in the query; B. a match token sequence processing control module for enabling the processor to determine, for match tokens in successive storage locations following the match token identified in response to processing in accordance with the match token query begin sequence identification control element, whether the document identifier information and the text symbol sequence information of proximate match tokens in the order established by the match token sorter satisfies a selected query criterion, and in response to a negative determination to return control to said match token query begin sequence identification control element; C. a match token query end sequence identifier control module for enabling said processor to, for each positive determination during processing in response to said match token sequence processing control module, determine whether the match token whose query symbol sequence information identifies the match token as having a query symbol corresponding to a final query symbol in the query, the processor, in response to a positive determination by said match token query end identifier, identifying the series of match tokens from the match token for which a positive determination was generated during processing in response to said match token query begin sequence identifier control module to the match token for which a positive determination was generated during processing in response to said match token query end sequence identifier control module as satisfying the query.