Efficient algorithms with simple regex search

Revision en2, by cardcounter, 2024-11-26 10:42:10

What is an efficient algorithm for regex search all occurrences (starting indexes) of a pattern in a long string?

Say I only have * in this question: https://leetcode.com/problems/regular-expression-matching/

a* search in aaa returns [0, 1, 2]

a*b search in abb [0]

Here a* and a*b are patterns and aaa and abb are text strings to search within and text strings could be very long.

Borrowing https://leetcode.com/problems/regular-expression-matching/ I can only come up with a solution with O(N * N * M)

References:

https://codeforces.me/blog/entry/73568

https://codeforces.me/blog/entry/111380

Tags substring search, regular expressions, kmp, fft, fsm, aho-corasick, wildcard

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