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92 changes: 92 additions & 0 deletions strings/aho-corasick.py
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from collections import deque


class Automaton:
def __init__(self, keywords):
self.adlist = list()
self.adlist.append(
{"value": "", "next_states": [], "fail_state": 0, "output": []}
)

for keyword in keywords:
self.add_keyword(keyword)
self.set_fail_transitions()

def find_next_state(self, current_state, char):
for state in self.adlist[current_state]["next_states"]:
if char == self.adlist[state]["value"]:
return state
return None

def add_keyword(self, keyword):
current_state = 0
for character in keyword:
if self.find_next_state(current_state, character):
current_state = self.find_next_state(current_state, character)
else:
self.adlist.append(
{
"value": character,
"next_states": [],
"fail_state": 0,
"output": [],
}
)
self.adlist[current_state]["next_states"].append(len(self.adlist) - 1)
current_state = len(self.adlist) - 1
self.adlist[current_state]["output"].append(keyword)

def set_fail_transitions(self):
q = deque()
for node in self.adlist[0]["next_states"]:
q.append(node)
self.adlist[node]["fail_state"] = 0
while q:
r = q.popleft()
for child in self.adlist[r]["next_states"]:
q.append(child)
state = self.adlist[r]["fail_state"]
while (
self.find_next_state(state, self.adlist[child]["value"]) == None
and state != 0
):
state = self.adlist[state]["fail_state"]
self.adlist[child]["fail_state"] = self.find_next_state(
state, self.adlist[child]["value"]
)
if self.adlist[child]["fail_state"] == None:
self.adlist[child]["fail_state"] = 0
self.adlist[child]["output"] = (
self.adlist[child]["output"]
+ self.adlist[self.adlist[child]["fail_state"]]["output"]
)

def search_in(self, string):
"""
>>> A = Automaton(["what", "hat", "ver", "er"])
>>> A.search_in("whatever, err ... , wherever")
{'what': [0], 'hat': [1], 'ver': [5, 25], 'er': [6, 10, 22, 26]}
"""
result = dict() # returns a dict with keywords and list of its occurences
current_state = 0
for i in range(len(string)):
while (
self.find_next_state(current_state, string[i]) == None
and current_state != 0
):
current_state = self.adlist[current_state]["fail_state"]
current_state = self.find_next_state(current_state, string[i])
if current_state is None:
current_state = 0
else:
for key in self.adlist[current_state]["output"]:
if not (key in result):
result[key] = []
result[key].append((i - len(key) + 1))
return result


if __name__ == "__main__":
import doctest

doctest.testmod()