about_search_fixed: Locale-Insensitive Fixed Pattern Matching in stringi

Description

String searching facilities described here provide a way to locate a specific sequence of bytes in a string. The search engine’s settings may be tuned up (for example to perform case-insensitive search) via a call to the stri_opts_fixed function.

Byte Compare

The fast Knuth-Morris-Pratt search algorithm, with worst time complexity of O(n+p) (n == length(str), p == length(pattern)) is implemented (with some tweaks for very short search patterns).

Be aware that, for natural language processing, fixed pattern searching might not be what you actually require. It is because a bitwise match will not give correct results in cases of:

accented letters;
conjoined letters;
ignorable punctuation;
ignorable case,

see also about_search_coll.

Note that the conversion of input data to Unicode is done as usual.

Author(s)

Marek Gagolewski and other contributors

See Also

The official online manual of stringi at https://stringi.gagolewski.com/

Gagolewski M., stringi: Fast and portable character string processing in R, Journal of Statistical Software 103(2), 2022, 1-59, doi: 10.18637/jss.v103.i02

Other search_fixed: about_search, stri_opts_fixed()

Other stringi_general_topics: about_arguments, about_encoding, about_locale, about_search_boundaries, about_search_charclass, about_search_coll, about_search_regex, about_search, about_stringi