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strsrch

(algorithm)

Definition: Find occurrences of a substring in a target string by trying the substring at each possible location in the string. Execution time is Θ(mn), where m is length of the target string and n is the length of the substring.

Generalization (I am a kind of ...)
string matching.

Aggregate child (... is a part of or used in me.)
brute force string search.

Note: This is a C implementation of an APL routine. There are far faster algorithms at string matching.

As written, the routine uses a fixed size array (15 in the article) to return matching locations. Hence it only returns the first 15 locations.

Author: PEB

More information

Sanford J. Hersh, String Searching in C, Computer Language, 5(12):63-65, December 1988.


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