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A string matching algorithm fast on the average

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For detailed version compare lit (4). The work reported here was done at the Heidelberg Scientific Center of IBM-Germany. It is part of a project dealing with subjects like Automatic Indexing, Clustering, and retrieval structures of unformatted data base.

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Commentz-Walter, B. (1979). A string matching algorithm fast on the average. In: Maurer, H.A. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 1979. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 71. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-09510-1_10

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