pmt

Pattern Matching Tool

Algorithms

• bf: Brute-force
• ac: Aho-Corasick (1975)
• bm: Boyer-Moore (1977)
• uk: Ukkonen (1985)
• so: Shift-Or (Baeza-Yates–Gonnet, 1992)
• wm: Wu-Manber (1992)

Build

To build make sure you have gcc and make installed:

make

Running

Usage: pmt [-a ALGO] [-c] [-e DIST] [-h] (PATTERN | -p PATTERN_FILE) FILE [FILE...]

Execute the program passing as arguments the pattern and the files to search. Run ./bin/pmt --help to see the whole list of arguments.

./bin/pmt Romeo shakespeare.txt