## Copyright (C) 1996 Kurt Hornik
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} findstr (@var{s}, @var{t}, @var{overlap})
## Return the vector of all positions in the longer of the two strings
## @var{s} and @var{t} where an occurrence of the shorter of the two starts.
## If the optional argument @var{overlap} is nonzero, the returned vector
## can include overlapping positions (this is the default).  For example,
##
## @example
## findstr ("ababab", "a")
##      @result{} [ 1, 3, 5 ]
## findstr ("abababa", "aba", 0)
##      @result{} [ 1, 5 ]
## @end example
## @end deftypefn

## Note that this implementation swaps the strings if second one is longer
## than the first, so try to put the longer one first.
##
## Author: Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
## Adapted-By: jwe

function v = findstr (s, t, overlap)

  if (nargin < 2 || nargin > 3)
    usage ("findstr (s, t, overlap)");
  endif

  if (! isstr (s) || ! isstr (t) || all (size (s) > 1) || all (size (t) > 1))
    error ("findstr: expecting first two arguments to be strings");
  endif

  if (nargin == 2)
    overlap = 1;
  endif

  ## Make S be the longer string.
  if (length (s) < length (t))
    tmp = s;
    s = t;
    t = tmp;
  endif
  
  l_s = length (s);
  l_t = length (t);
  
  if (l_t == 0)
    ## zero length target: return empty set
    v = [];
    
  elseif (l_t == 1)
    ## length one target: simple find
    v = find (s == t);
    
  elseif (l_t == 2)
    ## length two target: find first at i and second at i+1
    v = find (s(1:l_s-1) == t(1) & s(2:l_s) == t(2));
    
  else
    ## length three or more: match the first three by find then go through
    ## the much smaller list to determine which of them are real matches
    limit = l_s - l_t + 1;
    v = find (s(1:limit) == t(1)
	      & s(2:limit+1) == t(2)
	      & s (3:limit+2) == t(3));
  endif

  ## Need to search the index vector if our find was too short
  ## (target length > 3), or if we don't allow overlaps.  Note though
  ## that there cannot be any overlaps if the first character in the
  ## target is different from the remaining characters in the target,
  ## so a single character, two different characters, or first character
  ## different from the second two don't need to be searched.
  if (l_t >= 3 || (! overlap && l_t > 1 && any (t(1) == t(2:l_t))))
    ## force strings to be both row vectors or both column vectors
    if (all (size (s) != size (t)))
      t = t.';
    endif
    
    ## determine which ones to keep
    keep = zeros (size (v));
    ind = 0:l_t-1;
    if (overlap)
      for idx = 1:length (v)
	keep(idx) = all (s(v(idx) + ind) == t);
      endfor
    else
      next = 1; # first possible position for next non-overlapping match
      for idx = 1:length (v)
	if (v(idx) >= next && s(v(idx) + ind) == t)
	  keep(idx) = 1;
	  next = v(idx) + l_t; # skip to the next possible match position
	else
	  keep(idx) = 0;
	endif
      endfor
    endif
    if (! isempty (v))
      v = v(find (keep));
    endif
  endif
  
  ## Always return a column vector, because that's what the old one did
  if (rows (v) > 1) 
    v = v.';
  endif

endfunction
