Table 1 Summary of the characteristics of patterns that were used to test the string search algorithms. The text block consisted of 347,569 characters (5,847 words) of English text, repeated three times

Pattern  Pattern   Number of
 Name    Length   Occurrences
                    in Text
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 long1    250          3
medium     12         18
short1      3        468
 long2    250          0
short2      3          0