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"t = 'haystack needle haystack' # \"text\" - thing we search in\n",
"p = 'needle' # \"pattern\" - thing we search for"
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"def naive(p, t):\n",
" assert len(p) <= len(t) # assume text at least as long as pattern\n",
" occurrences = []\n",
" for i in xrange(0, len(t)-len(p)+1): # for each alignment of p to t\n",
" match = True # assume we match until proven wrong\n",
" for j in xrange(0, len(p)): # for each position of p\n",
" if t[i+j] != p[j]:\n",
" match = False # at least 1 char mismatches\n",
" break\n",
" if match:\n",
" occurrences.append(i)\n",
" return occurrences"
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"naive(p, t)"
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"[9]"
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"input": [
"t[9:9+len(p)] # confirm it really occurs"
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"'needle'"
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"naive('needle', 'needleneedleneedle')"
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"prompt_number": 5,
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"[0, 6, 12]"
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