/* Implementation of Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm Usage: final String T = "AAAAABAAABA"; final String P = "AAAA"; KMPmatcher(T, P); */ public class KMP { // find the starting index in string T[] that matches the search word P[] public void KMPmatcher(final String T, final String P) { final int m = T.length(); final int n = P.length(); final int[] pi = computePrefixFunction(P); int q = 0; for (int i = 0; i < m; i++) { while (q > 0 && T.charAt(i) != P.charAt(q)) { q = pi[q - 1]; } if (T.charAt(i) == P.charAt(q)) { q++; } if (q == n) { System.out.println("Pattern starts: " + (i + 1 - n)); q = pi[q - 1]; } } } // return the prefix function private int[] computePrefixFunction(final String P) { final int n = P.length(); final int[] pi = new int[n]; pi[0] = 0; int q = 0; for (int i = 1; i < n; i++) { while (q > 0 && P.charAt(q) != P.charAt(i)) { q = pi[q - 1]; } if (P.charAt(q) == P.charAt(i)) { q++; } pi[i] = q; } return pi; } }