package Others; /** Implementation of Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm Usage: see the main function for an example */ public class KMP { // a working example public static void main(String[] args) { final String haystack = "AAAAABAAABA"; // This is the full string final String needle = "AAAA"; // This is the substring that we want to find KMPmatcher(haystack, needle); } // find the starting index in string haystack[] that matches the search word P[] public static void KMPmatcher(final String haystack, final String needle) { final int m = haystack.length(); final int n = needle.length(); final int[] pi = computePrefixFunction(needle); int q = 0; for (int i = 0; i < m; i++) { while (q > 0 && haystack.charAt(i) != needle.charAt(q)) { q = pi[q - 1]; } if (haystack.charAt(i) == needle.charAt(q)) { q++; } if (q == n) { System.out.println("Pattern starts: " + (i + 1 - n)); q = pi[q - 1]; } } } // return the prefix function private static 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; } }