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title: Boyer-Moore
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## Boyer-Moore
This algorithm has been shown to be more effective than the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm and others for pattern matching in natural languages like English. It relies on the use of [two key heuristics][1], namely:
* The looking-glass heuristic: where the pattern P is compared to a substring of the text T starting from Ps last letter
* Character-jump heuristic: if there is a mismatch at T[i] = c then
- If P contains c, shift P to line up the last instance of c in P with T[i]
- Else move P to align P[0] with T[i+1]
Before applying these heuristics however, the algorithm analyses pattern P and alphabet Σ to create a last occurrence function. This function ties the letters of the alphabet to the letters in P according to where they occur in P.
So if the last occurence of the letter c in P is at index P[i] then at L(c) the index i of that letter will be stored. If the letter c does not occur in P, -1 will be stored there.
#### Example:
__Σ =__ {e, f, g, h}
__P =__ egef
| | | | | |
|--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |
| __c__ | e | f | g | h |
| __L(c)__ | 2 | 3 | 1 | -1 |
The last occurrence function can be stored as an array indexed by the numeric codes of the characters. This function can be calculated in O(m+s) time where m is the length of the pattern and s the size of the alphabet.
### Code of Boyer-Moore Algorithm in C++
```c++
#include<iostream>
#define MAXCHAR 256 //there are 256 ASCII characters
using namespace std;
int min(int num1, int num2) {
if (num1 < num2) {
return num1;
}
return num2;
}
void makeLOFunction(string pattern, int LOFunction[MAXCHAR]) {
int n = pattern.size();
for (int c = 0; c < MAXCHAR; c++)
LOFunction[c] = -1;
for (int c = 0; c < n; c++)
LOFunction[(int)pattern[c]] = c;
}
int boyerMoore(string pattern, string text) {
int m = pattern.size();
int n = text.size();
int LOFunction[MAXCHAR];
makeLOFunction(pattern, LOFunction); //fill array of last occurrence function
int i = m-1;
int j = m-1;
do {
if (text[i] == pattern[j]) {
if (j == 0) {
cout << "Pattern starts at index " << i << "\n";
return 1; //match found at i
} else {
i--;
j--; //move backwards through pattern
}
} else {
int leap = LOFunction[(int)text[i]]; //character jump
i = i + m - min(j, leap+1);
j = m - 1;
}
}
while (i <= n-1); //while not reached end of text
cout << "Match not found\n";
return -1; //no match found
}
int main() {
string pattern = "abacab";
string text = "abacaabadcabacabaabb";
boyerMoore(pattern, text);
}
```
#### References
[1]: https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/aliaga/cs251-16/lectures/22-PatternMatching.pdf
1. Aliaga, D (2016) *Strings and Pattern Matching*, lecture notes, Data Structures and Algorithms CS251, Purdue University, delivered 9 April 2016.
2. Christine, S (2018) Bad Character Heuristic [Source code]. https://www.tutorialspoint.com/Bad-Character-Heuristic
3. Buerger, H (2012) Boyer-Moore Algorithm [Source code].
https://gist.github.com/obstschale/3060059