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Data.Text.BoyerMooreCI.Automaton

An efficient implementation of the Boyer-Moore string search algorithm. http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~lecroq/string/node14.html#SECTION00140 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore_string-search_algorithm

This is case insensitive variant of the algorithm which, unlike the case sensitive variant, has to be aware of the unicode code points that the bytes represent.

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  • 5 values
datadata Automaton
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A Boyer-Moore automaton is based on lookup-tables that allow skipping through the haystack. This allows for sub-linear matching in some cases, as we do not have to look at every input character.

NOTE: Unlike the AcMachine, a Boyer-Moore automaton only returns non-overlapping matches. This means that a Boyer-Moore automaton is not a 100% drop-in replacement for Aho-Corasick.

Returning overlapping matches would degrade the performance to O(nm) in pathological cases like finding aaaa in aaaaa....aaaaaa as for each match it would scan back the whole m characters of the pattern.

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datadata CaseSensitivity
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newtypenewtype CodeUnitIndex
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An index into the raw UTF-8 data of a Text. This is not the code point index as conventionally accepted by Text, so we wrap it to avoid confusing the two. Incorrect index manipulation can lead to surrogate pairs being sliced, so manipulate indices with care. This type is also used for lengths.

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Number of bytes that we can skip in the haystack if we want to skip no more than 1 pattern codepoint.

It must always be a low (safe) estimate, otherwise the algorithm can miss matches. It must account for any variation of upper/lower case characters that may occur in the haystack. In most cases, this is the same number of bytes as for the given codepoint

minimumSkipForCodePoint a == 1 minimumSkipForCodePoint д == 2 minimumSkipForCodePoint ⓟ == 3 minimumSkipForCodePoint 🎄 == 4