One of the important basic tasks in computing is the finding of all occurrences of a particular alphanumeric string in a document, or the finding of all documents that have one or more occurrences of a given alphanumeric string. One common example...

String searching algorithms, sometimes called string matching algorithms, are an important class of string algorithms that try to find a place where one or several strings (also called patterns) are found within a larger string or text. Let Σ be an...