Fast and compact regular expression matching

Philip Bille, Martin Farach-Colton

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Abstract

We study 4 problems in string matching, namely, regular expression matching, approximate regular expression matching, string edit distance, and subsequence indexing, on a standard word RAM model of computation that allows logarithmic-sized words to be manipulated in constant time. We show how to improve the space and/or remove a dependency on the alphabet size for each problem using either an improved tabulation technique of an existing algorithm or by combining known algorithms in a new way.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)486-496
Number of pages11
JournalTheoretical Computer Science
Volume409
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 28 2008

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

Keywords

  • Approximate regular expression matching: String edit distance
  • Four russian technique
  • Regular expression matching
  • Subsequence indexing

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