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This collection of puzzles and exercises with solutions in key areas of string algorithms and combinatorics on words offers graduate students and researchers a pleasant and direct way to learn and practice with advanced concepts. Copious figures illuminate classic and new problems to tease out deeper understanding of algorithms on strings.

The book is intended for lectures on string processes and pattern matching in Master's courses of computer science and software engineering curricula. The details of algorithms are given with correctness proofs and complexity analysis, which make them ready to implement. Algorithms are described in a C-like language. The book is also a reference for students in computational linguistics or computational biology. It presents examples of questions related to the automatic processing of natural language, to the analysis of molecular sequences, and to the management of textual databases.

String matching is a very important subject in the wider domain of text processing. It consists of finding one,or more generally, all the occurrences of a string (more generally called a pattern) in a text. The Handbook of Exact String Matching Algorithms presents 38 methods for solving this problem. For each, it gives the main features, a description, its C code, an example and references.