Implementation of Boyer Moore Algorithm
Soumalya De
Paper Name: Advance Data Structure
Department: CSE
Date:25/11/2021
Implement the Boyer Moore algorithm using C.
Solution:
# include <stdio.h>
# include <limits.h>
# include <string.h>
# define NO_OF_CHARS 256
int max (int a, int b) { return (a > b)? a: b; }
void badCharHeuristic( char *str, int size,
int badchar[NO_OF_CHARS])
int i;
for (i = 0; i < NO_OF_CHARS; i++)
badchar[i] = -1;
for (i = 0; i < size; i++)
badchar[(int) str[i]] = i;
void search( char *txt, char *pat)
{
int m = strlen(pat);
int n = strlen(txt);
int badchar[NO_OF_CHARS];
badCharHeuristic(pat, m, badchar);
int s = 0;
while(s <= (n - m))
int j = m-1;
while(j >= 0 && pat[j] == txt[s+j])
j--;
if (j < 0)
printf("\n pattern occurs at shift = %d", s);
s += (s+m < n)? m-badchar[txt[s+m]] : 1;
else
s += max(1, j - badchar[txt[s+j]]);
}
int main()
char txt[] = "ABACBCABCDABBACABC";
char pat[] = "ABC";
search(txt, pat);
return 0;
Output:
pattern occurs at shift = 6
pattern occurs at shift = 15