brute force string search

(algorithm)

Definition: Find a string in another string or body of text by trying each position one at a time. There are many far faster string matching algorithms.

Also known as naive string search.

Generalization (I am a kind of ...)
string matching, brute force.

Aggregate parent (I am a part of or used in ...)
strsrch.

Author: PEB

Implementation

Christian Charras' and Thierry Lecroq's Exact String Matching Algorithms (C), (C and Pascal)

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Paul E. Black, "brute force string search", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 12 February 2019. (accessed TODAY) Available from: /HTML/bruteForceStringSearch.html