# Knuth Morris Pratt (KMP) Algorithm
The KMP is a pattern matching algorithm which searches for occurrences of a "word" W within a main "text string" S by employing the observation that when a mismatch occurs, we have the sufficient information to determine where the next match could begin.We take advantage of this information to avoid matching the characters that we know will anyway match.The worst case complexity for searching a pattern reduces to O(n).
# KMP-Example
Algorithm
This algorithm is a two step process.First we create a auxiliary array lps[] and then use this array for searching the pattern.
Preprocessing :
Searching
Implementaion in Java
public class KMP {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
String str = "abcabdabc";
String pattern = "abc";
KMP obj = new KMP();
System.out.println(obj.patternExistKMP(str.toCharArray(), pattern.toCharArray()));
}
public int[] computeLPS(char[] str){
int lps[] = new int[str.length];
lps[0] = 0;
int j = 0;
for(int i =1;i<str.length;i++){
if(str[j] == str[i]){
lps[i] = j+1;
j++;
i++;
}else{
if(j!=0){
j = lps[j-1];
}else{
lps[i] = j+1;
i++;
}
}
}
return lps;
}
public boolean patternExistKMP(char[] text,char[] pat){
int[] lps = computeLPS(pat);
int i=0,j=0;
while(i<text.length && j<pat.length){
if(text[i] == pat[j]){
i++;
j++;
}else{
if(j!=0){
j = lps[j-1];
}else{
i++;
}
}
}
if(j==pat.length)
return true;
return false;
}
}