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Searching for patterns in text

A string-searching algorithm, sometimes called string-matching algorithm, is an algorithm that searches a body of text for portions that match by pattern. Wikipedia →

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  4. Read the landmark paper: A fast string searching algorithmCited 1,583 times
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