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This module implements the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm.
It can search a word in a text in O(m+n) time, where m and n are the length of the word and the text.
This module can apply on any list of instance of Eq.
Donald Knuth; James H. Morris, Jr, Vaughan Pratt (1977).
Fast pattern matching in strings.
SIAM Journal on Computing 6 (2): 323–350. doi:10.1137/0206024
Sample usage:
> let
>   word = "abababcaba"
>   text = "abababababcabababcababbb"
>   kmpTable = build word
>   result = match kmpTable text
>   -- the 'result' should be [4, 11]

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