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A technique for two-dimensional pattern matching

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By reducing an array matching problem to a string matching problem in a natural way, it is shown that efficient string matching algorithms can be applied to arrays, assuming that a linear preprocessing is made on the text.

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 32, Issue 9
        Special issue: multiprocessing
        Sept. 1989
        93 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/66451
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