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    Boyer-Moore String Search: - How Does It Work? - Examples - Complexity - Acknowledgements

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    The Boyer-Moore string searching algorithm uses two heuristics - the bad character heuristic and good suffix heuristic - to efficiently search for patterns in text. It preprocesses the pattern to create tables for each heuristic. At each step, it shifts the pattern by the maximum suggested by the heuristics. It starts matching from the end of the pattern and shifts left if a mismatch is found based on the heuristics. This allows it to skip characters without comparing them.

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    The Boyer-Moore string searching algorithm uses two heuristics - the bad character heuristic and good suffix heuristic - to efficiently search for patterns in text. It preprocesses the pattern to create tables for each heuristic. At each step, it shifts the pattern by the maximum suggested by the heuristics. It starts matching from the end of the pattern and shifts left if a mismatch is found based on the heuristics. This allows it to skip characters without comparing them.

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    The Boyer-Moore string searching algorithm uses two heuristics - the bad character heuristic and good suffix heuristic - to efficiently search for patterns in text. It preprocesses the pattern to create tables for each heuristic. At each step, it shifts the pattern by the maximum suggested by the heuristics. It starts matching from the end of the pattern and shifts left if a mismatch is found based on the heuristics. This allows it to skip characters without comparing them.

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    Boyer-Moore String Search

    •How does it work?


    •Examples
    •Complexity
    •Acknowledgements
    Boyer Moore Algorithm

    Boyer Moore pattern searching algorithm. Like


    KMP and Finite Automata algorithms, Boyer
    Moore algorithm also preprocesses the pattern.
    Boyer Moore is a combination of following two
    approaches.
    1) Bad Character Heuristic
    2) Good Suffix Heuristic
    Both of the above heuristics can also be used independently to search a
    pattern in a text.

    Let us first understand how two independent approaches work together


    in the Boyer Moore algorithm.
    If we take a look at the Naive algorithm, it slides the pattern over the text
    one by one.
    KMP algorithm does preprocessing over the pattern so that the pattern
    can be shifted by more than one.
    The Boyer Moore algorithm does preprocessing for the same reason.
    It processes the pattern and creates different arrays for both heuristics.

    At every step, it slides the pattern by the max of the slides suggested by
    the two heuristics. So it uses best of the two heuristics at every step.

    Unlike the previous pattern searching algorithms, Boyer Moore algorithm


    starts matching from the last character of the pattern.
    How Does it Work?
    •Pattern moves left to right.
    •Comparisons are done right to left.
    •Uses two heuristics:
    •Bad Character
    •Good Suffix

    Each heuristic is put into play when a mismatch


    occurs. They give us the maximum number of
    characters the search pattern can move forward
    safely and still know that there are no characters
    that need to be checked.
    Bad Character Heuristic

    The idea of bad character heuristic is simple. The


    character of the text which doesn’t match with the
    current character of the pattern is called the Bad
    Character. Upon mismatch, we shift the pattern until –
    1) The mismatch becomes a match
    2) Pattern P move past the mismatched character.
    Case 1 – Mismatch become
    match

    We will lookup the position of last occurrence of


    mismatching character in pattern and if
    mismatching character exist in pattern then we’ll
    shift the pattern such that it get aligned to the
    mismatching character in text T.
    Case 2 – Pattern move past
    the mismatch character
    We’ll lookup the position of last occurrence of mismatching character in
    pattern and
    if character does not exist we will shift pattern past the mismatching
    character.
    we preprocess the pattern and store the last occurrence of
    every possible character in an array of size equal to alphabet
    size.
    If the character is not present at all, then it may result in a shift
    by m (length of pattern).
    Therefore, the bad character heuristic takes O(n/m) time in the
    best case.
    Good Suffix Heuristic

    Let t be substring of text T which is matched with


    substring of pattern P. Now we shift pattern until :
    1) Another occurrence of t in P matched with t in T.
    2) A prefix of P, which matches with suffix of t
    3) P moves past t
    Case 1: Another occurrence of t in P matched with t in T
    Pattern P might contain few more occurrences of t. In such case,
    we will try to shift the pattern to align that occurrence with t in text T.
    For example-

                                                                                                                                                                       
    Case 2: A prefix of P, which matches with suffix of t in T
    It is not always likely that we will find the occurrence of t in P.
    Sometimes there is no occurrence at all, in such cases sometimes we can search for
    suffix of t matching with some prefix of P and try to align them by shifting P.
    For example –

                                                                                                                                                                      
    Case 3: P moves past by 1
    If the above two cases are not satisfied, we will shift the
    pattern past the t. For example

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