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/*
 * BoyerMooreSearchMatcher.java - Literal pattern String matcher utilizing the
 *         Boyer-Moore algorithm
 * Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 mike dillon
 * Portions copyright (C) 2001 Tom Locke
 * Portions copyright (C) 2001 Slava Pestov
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
 * of the License, or any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.
 */

package org.jext.search;

import javax.swing.text.Segment;

import org.jext.scripting.python.Run;

public class BoyerMooreSearchMatcher implements SearchMatcher
{
  // private members
  private char[] pattern;
  private String replace;
  private boolean ignoreCase;
  private boolean reverseSearch;
  private boolean script;
  private String pythonScript;
  private Object[] replaceArgs;

  // Boyer-Moore member fields
  private int[] skip;
  private int[] suffix;

  /**
   * Creates a new string literal matcher.
   */
  public BoyerMooreSearchMatcher(String pattern, String replace, boolean ignoreCase, boolean reverseSearch,
                                 boolean script, String pythonScript)
  {
    if (ignoreCase)
    {
      this.pattern = pattern.toUpperCase().toCharArray();
    } else {
      this.pattern = pattern.toCharArray();
    }

    if (reverseSearch)
    {
      char[] tmp = new char[this.pattern.length];
      for (int i = 0; i < tmp.length; i++)
      {
        tmp[i] = this.pattern[this.pattern.length - (i + 1)];
      }
      this.pattern = tmp;
    }

    this.replace = replace;
    this.ignoreCase = ignoreCase;
    this.reverseSearch = reverseSearch;
    this.script = script;
    this.pythonScript = pythonScript;
    replaceArgs = new Object[10];

    generateSkipArray();
    generateSuffixArray();
  }

  /**
   * Returns the offset of the first match of the specified text
   * within this matcher.
   * @param text The text to search in
   * @return an array where the first element is the start offset
   * of the match, and the second element is the end offset of
   * the match
   */
  public int[] nextMatch(Segment text)
  {
    int pos = match(text.array, text.offset, text.offset + text.count);

    if (pos == -1)
    {
      return null;
    } else {
      return new int[]{ pos - text.offset, pos + pattern.length - text.offset };
    }
  }

  /**
   * Returns the specified text, with any substitution specified
   * within this matcher performed.
   * @param text The text
   */
  public String substitute(String text) throws Exception
  {
    if (script)
    {
      String[] args = new String[10];
      args[0] = text;
      Object obj = Run.eval(pythonScript, "_m", args, null);
      if (obj == null)
        return null;
      else
        return obj.toString();
    } else
      return replace;
  }

  /*
   *  a good introduction to the Boyer-Moore fast string matching
   *  algorithm may be found on Moore's website at:
   *
   *   http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/moore/best-ideas/string-searching/
   *
   */
  public int match(char[] text, int offset, int length)
  {
    // position variable for pattern start
    int anchor = reverseSearch ? offset - 1 : offset;

    // position variable for pattern test position
    int pos;

    // last possible start position of a match with this pattern;
    // this is negative if the pattern is longer than the text
    // causing the search loop below to immediately fail
    int last_anchor = reverseSearch ? pattern.length - 1 : length - pattern.length;

    // each time the pattern is checked, we start this many
    // characters ahead of 'anchor'
    int pattern_end = pattern.length - 1;

    char ch = 0;

    int bad_char;
    int good_suffix;

    // the search works by starting the anchor (first character
    // of the pattern) at the initial offset. as long as the
    // anchor is far enough from the enough of the text for the
    // pattern to match, and until the pattern matches, we
    // compare the pattern to the text from the last character
    // to the first character in reverse order. where a character
    // in the pattern mismatches, we use the two heuristics
    // based on the mismatch character and its position in the
    // pattern to determine the furthest we can move the anchor
    // without missing any potential pattern matches.
    SEARCH:
    while (reverseSearch ? anchor >= last_anchor : anchor <= last_anchor)
    {
      for (pos = pattern_end; pos >= 0; --pos)
      {
        int idx = reverseSearch ? anchor - pos : anchor + pos;
        ch = ignoreCase ? Character.toUpperCase(text[idx]) : text[idx];

        // pattern test
        if (ch != pattern[pos])
        {
          // character mismatch, determine how many characters to skip

          // heuristic #1
          bad_char = pos - skip[getSkipIndex(ch)];

          // heuristic #2
          good_suffix = suffix[pos];

          // skip the greater of the two distances provided by the
          // heuristics
          int skip = (bad_char > good_suffix) ? bad_char : good_suffix;
          anchor += reverseSearch ? -skip : skip;

          // go back to the while loop
          continue SEARCH;
        }
      }

      // MATCH: return the position of its first character
      return reverseSearch ? anchor - (pattern.length - 1) : anchor;
    }

    // MISMATCH: return -1 as defined by API
    return -1;
  }

  // Boyer-Moore helper methods

  /*
   *  the 'skip' array is used to determine for each index in the
   *  hashed alphabet how many characters can be skipped if
   *  a mismatch occurs on a characater hashing to that index.
   */
  private void generateSkipArray()
  {
    // initialize the skip array to all zeros
    skip = new int[256];

    // leave the table cleanly-initialized for an empty pattern
    if (pattern.length == 0)
      return;

    int pos = 0;

    do
    {
      skip[getSkipIndex(pattern[pos])] = pos;
    } while (++pos < pattern.length);
  }

  /*
   *  to avoid our skip table having a length of 2 ^ 16, we hash each
   *  character of the input into a character in the alphabet [\x00-\xFF]
   *  using the lower 8 bits of the character's value (resulting in
   *  a more reasonable skip table of length 2 ^ 8).
   *
   *  the result of this is that more than one character can hash to the
   *  same index, but since the skip table encodes the position of
   *  occurence of the character furthest into the string with a particular
   *  index (whether or not it is the only character with that index), an
   *  index collision only means that that this heuristic will give a
   *  sub-optimal skip (i.e. a complete skip table could use the differences
   *  between colliding characters to maximal effect, at the expense of
   *  building a table that is over 2 orders of magnitude larger and very
   *  sparse).
   */
  private static final int getSkipIndex(char ch)
  {
    return ((int) ch) & 0x000000FF;
  }

  /*
   *  XXX: hairy code that is basically just a functional(?) port of some
   *  other code i barely understood
   */
  private void generateSuffixArray()
  {
    int m = pattern.length;

    int j = m + 1;

    suffix = new int[j];
    int[] tmp = new int[j];
    tmp[m] = j;

    for (int i = m; i > 0; --i)
    {
      while (j <= m && pattern[i - 1] != pattern[j - 1])
      {
        if (suffix[j] == 0)
        {
          suffix[j] = j - i;
        }

        j = tmp[j];
      }

      tmp[i - 1] = --j;
    }

    int k = tmp[0];

    for (j = 0; j <= m; j++)
    {
      // the code above builds a 1-indexed suffix array,
      // but we shift it to be 0-indexed, ignoring the
      // original 0-th element
      if (j > 0)
      {
        suffix[j - 1] = (suffix[j] == 0) ? k : suffix[j];
      }

      if (j == k)
      {
        k = tmp[k];
      }
    }
  }
}
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