text-2.1.2: An efficient packed Unicode text type.
Copyright(c) Bryan O'Sullivan 2009
LicenseBSD-style
Maintainerbos@serpentine.com
Stabilityexperimental
PortabilityGHC
Safe HaskellSafe-Inferred
LanguageHaskell2010

Data.Text.Internal.Search

Description

Fast substring search for Text, based on work by Boyer, Moore, Horspool, Sunday, and Lundh.

References:

  • R. S. Boyer, J. S. Moore: A Fast String Searching Algorithm. Communications of the ACM, 20, 10, 762-772 (1977)
  • R. N. Horspool: Practical Fast Searching in Strings. Software - Practice and Experience 10, 501-506 (1980)
  • D. M. Sunday: A Very Fast Substring Search Algorithm. Communications of the ACM, 33, 8, 132-142 (1990)
  • F. Lundh: The Fast Search Algorithm. (2006)
Synopsis

Documentation

indices Source #

Arguments

:: Text

Substring to search for (needle)

-> Text

Text to search in (haystack)

-> [Int] 

O(n+m) Find the offsets of all non-overlapping indices of needle within haystack.

In (unlikely) bad cases, this algorithm's complexity degrades towards O(n*m).