String Pattern Matching Algorithms in C

Pattern Matching Algorithms: Essential techniques for searching patterns within text. Master these 25 algorithms to enhance your problem-solving skills.

String Pattern Matching Algorithms

# Algorithm Name Description Complexity Resources
1 Naive String Matching Simple brute-force pattern search O(n*m) GeeksforGeeks
2 KMP Algorithm Knuth-Morris-Pratt pattern matching O(n+m) GeeksforGeeks
3 Rabin-Karp Algorithm Pattern search using hash functions O(n+m) GeeksforGeeks
4 Boyer-Moore Algorithm Efficient pattern search with bad character rule O(n*m) GeeksforGeeks
5 Finite Automata Pattern search using finite state machine O(n) GeeksforGeeks
6 Z-Algorithm Linear time pattern matching O(n+m) GeeksforGeeks
7 Aho-Corasick Multiple pattern string matching O(n+m+z) GeeksforGeeks
8 Suffix Array Pattern search using sorted suffixes O(m log n) GeeksforGeeks
9 Suffix Tree Fast pattern matching using compressed trie O(m) GeeksforGeeks
10 Manacher's Algorithm Find longest palindromic substring O(n) GeeksforGeeks
11 Regular Expression Matching Pattern matching with regex O(2^n) GeeksforGeeks
12 Wildcard Pattern Matching Pattern with * and ? wildcards O(n*m) GeeksforGeeks
13 Approximate String Matching Find patterns with errors O(n*m) GeeksforGeeks
14 Bitap Algorithm Bit-parallel approximate matching O(n*m/w) GeeksforGeeks
15 Two-Way String Matching Memory-efficient pattern search O(n+m) GeeksforGeeks
16 Longest Common Substring Find longest common substring O(n*m) GeeksforGeeks
17 Longest Repeated Substring Find longest repeated substring O(n log n) GeeksforGeeks
18 String Rotation Check Check if strings are rotations O(n) GeeksforGeeks
19 Anagram Substring Search Search for anagram of pattern O(n) GeeksforGeeks
20 Smallest Window Substring Find smallest window with all characters O(n) GeeksforGeeks
21 Burrows-Wheeler Transform Data compression and pattern matching O(n log n) GeeksforGeeks
22 FM-Index Compressed full-text indexing O(m log n) GeeksforGeeks
23 Rolling Hash Efficient substring hash computation O(n+m) GeeksforGeeks
24 Trie Pattern Matching Pattern search using trie data structure O(n*m) GeeksforGeeks
25 Palindrome Pattern Matching Find all palindromic substrings O(n²) GeeksforGeeks

Algorithm Complexity Summary

Time Complexity Comparison
Best Performance (Linear Time):
  • KMP Algorithm
  • Rabin-Karp Algorithm
  • Z-Algorithm
  • Manacher's Algorithm
Practical Applications:
  • Text Editors (Boyer-Moore)
  • DNA Sequencing (Aho-Corasick)
  • Plagiarism Detection (Rabin-Karp)
  • Search Engines (Suffix Arrays)

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