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     New versions of Clam AntiVirus use a mutation of the Aho-Corasick
     pattern matching algorithm. The algorithm is based a finite state pattern
     matching automaton [<A
  HREF="node85.html#clr">1</A>] and it's a generalization of the famous
     Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm. Please take a look at the <code>matcher.h</code>
     for data type definitions. The automaton is represented by a trie. It
     is a rooted tree with some specific properties [<A
  HREF="node85.html#acwww">2</A>]. Every node
     of the trie represents some state of the automaton. In our implementation,
     the node is defined as follows:
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 	struct cl_node {
 	    short int islast;
 	    struct cli_patt *list;
 	    int maxpatlen;
 	    struct node *next[NUM_CHILDS], *trans[NUM_CHILDS], *fail;
 	};
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     [To be continued...]
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 Tomasz Kojm
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 2004-06-14
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