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42 .Nd Boyer-Moore string search
49 .Fn bm_comp "u_char *pattern" "size_t patlen" "u_char freq[256]"
51 .Fn bm_exec "bm_pat *pdesc" "u_char *text" "size_t len"
53 .Fn bm_free "bm_pat *pdesc"
55 These routines implement an efficient mechanism to find an
56 occurrence of a byte string within another byte string.
63 and returns a pointer to a structure describing them.
64 The bytes referenced by
68 The search takes advantage of the frequency distribution of the
69 bytes in the text to be searched.
72 should be an array of 256 values,
73 with higher values indicating that the corresponding character occurs
75 (A less than optimal frequency distribution can only result in less
76 than optimal performance, not incorrect results.)
81 a system default table is used.
84 returns a pointer to the leftmost occurrence of the string given to
91 The number of bytes in
96 Space allocated for the returned description is discarded
99 with the returned description as an argument.
101 The asymptotic speed of
110 .%J "Software Practice and Experience"
112 .%T "Fast String Searching"