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Horspool Algorithm

The document describes the Horspool algorithm for pattern matching. [1] It compares the traditional brute force pattern matching approach to the Horspool algorithm. [2] The Horspool algorithm works by constructing a shift table which contains the number of shifts to the right depending on the last character of the pattern not matching the current character in the string. [3] It then describes the process of searching for a pattern in a string using the shift table.

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Horspool Algorithm

The document describes the Horspool algorithm for pattern matching. [1] It compares the traditional brute force pattern matching approach to the Horspool algorithm. [2] The Horspool algorithm works by constructing a shift table which contains the number of shifts to the right depending on the last character of the pattern not matching the current character in the string. [3] It then describes the process of searching for a pattern in a string using the shift table.

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HORSPOOL ALGORITHM: -

• The algorithm is used for pattern matching. That is to find a substring in a given string
• Let us compare the traditional brute force pattern matching with the Horspool Pattern
Matching Algorithm.
Brute force pattern
matching

• Given string is
• Pattern string is
HORSPOOL ALGORITHM:

• Given string is
• Pattern string is

• In horspool algorithm, a shift table has to be constructed which will contain the number shifts to
the right
THE SHIFT TABLE IS CONSTRUCTED AS FOLLOWS:

• EX:1 Consider the pattern string BANGALORE

The length of this string is 9

• EX:2:Consider the pattern string KANNADA


• The length of string is 7
ALGORITHM FOR THE SHIFT TABLE

• P array stores the pattern. The length of the pattern is m . The pattern is stored in p from 0 to m-1.

ST[0 to size-1] is the shift table where assize is the alphabet size.

Asize=256 for all the ASCII characters, asize=26 for A to Z ,asize=62 for A to Z , a to z,0 to 9

Input: Pattern string P

Output: shift table ST

Algorithm Shift_table(P,ST)

for i=0 to asize-1 //length of the string

ST[i]=m; //This loop will initialize m[length of the pattern] for all the characters in the shift table

for j=0 to m-2

index=ASCII Value of P[j]-ASCII Value of ‘A’

ST[index]=m-1-j; //This loop will find the shift value for all the m-1 characters in the pattern(we know

} the last character in the pattern will not have a shift value)

}
CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING STRING:

• KANNADA FILM INDUSTRY ICON IS DR RAJKUMAR


Let us search the pattern RAJKUMAR in this string using Horspool Algorithm

We already know the shift table for RAJKUMAR as follows:

Let us see how to find the substring RAJKUMAR in the given string using Horspool Algorithm.

The basic idea of horspool is to shift the pattern depending upon whether the last character in the pattern matches particular character in the
given string.
ALGORITHM FOR HORSPOOL

• Algorithm Horspool(S,P)

n=length(S); //n will contain the length of the given string

m=length(P); //m will contain length of the pattern for the given string

Shift_table(P,ST); //contains the shift table

i=m-1; //because we will starting the comparison end in the reverse direction

while(i<=n-1)

k=0; //k will be pointing to the first character to the pattern string

while(k<=m-1 and P[m-1-k]=S[i-k]) //if the characters match and still there are characters left to match here pattern is matches then it will be increment the value of k

k=k+1;

if(k==m) //pattern is found

then return i-m+1;

else i=i+ST[s[i]]; //I as to be shift to the right by ST[s[i]] times

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