(algorithm)
Definition: A string matching algorithm that compares characters from the end of the pattern to its beginning. When characters don't match, searching jumps to the next matching position in the pattern.
Also known as Horspool.
See also Boyer-Moore.
Author: PEB
R. Nigel Horspool, Practical Fast Searching in Strings, Software - Practice and Experience, 10:501-506, 1980.
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Paul E. Black, "Boyer-Moore-Horspool", in
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data
Structures [online], Paul E. Black, ed.,
U.S. National Institute of
Standards and Technology. 16 November 2009. (accessed TODAY)
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