From 7442c10f596fec191eacbec644fcf8d5fae7f30a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vyacheslav Khorkov <artfintch@ya.ru>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 22:34:48 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] Update Z-Algorithm up to Swift 4.2.

---
 Z-Algorithm/README.markdown                         |  5 ++---
 Z-Algorithm/ZAlgorithm.swift                        |  3 +--
 Z-Algorithm/ZetaAlgorithm.playground/Contents.swift | 10 ++--------
 Z-Algorithm/ZetaAlgorithm.swift                     |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Z-Algorithm/README.markdown b/Z-Algorithm/README.markdown
index 8b84c28bf..a6423be03 100644
--- a/Z-Algorithm/README.markdown
+++ b/Z-Algorithm/README.markdown
@@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ This a simple description of the idea that is behind this algorithm. There are a
 Here is the code of the function that computes the Z-array:
 ```swift
 func ZetaAlgorithm(ptrn: String) -> [Int]? {
-
-    let pattern = Array(ptrn.characters)
+    let pattern = Array(ptrn)
     let patternLength: Int = pattern.count
 
     guard patternLength > 0 else {
@@ -131,7 +130,7 @@ The Z-Algorithm discussed above leads to the simplest linear-time string matchin
 extension String {
 
     func indexesOf(pattern: String) -> [Int]? {
-        let patternLength: Int = pattern.characters.count
+        let patternLength: Int = pattern.count
         /* Let's calculate the Z-Algorithm on the concatenation of pattern and text */
         let zeta = ZetaAlgorithm(ptrn: pattern + "💲" + self)
 
diff --git a/Z-Algorithm/ZAlgorithm.swift b/Z-Algorithm/ZAlgorithm.swift
index 969a3599b..65acaabd1 100644
--- a/Z-Algorithm/ZAlgorithm.swift
+++ b/Z-Algorithm/ZAlgorithm.swift
@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@
 import Foundation
 
 func ZetaAlgorithm(ptrn: String) -> [Int]? {
-
-  let pattern = Array(ptrn.characters)
+  let pattern = Array(ptrn)
   let patternLength = pattern.count
 
   guard patternLength > 0 else {
diff --git a/Z-Algorithm/ZetaAlgorithm.playground/Contents.swift b/Z-Algorithm/ZetaAlgorithm.playground/Contents.swift
index d057080a1..56aa92170 100644
--- a/Z-Algorithm/ZetaAlgorithm.playground/Contents.swift
+++ b/Z-Algorithm/ZetaAlgorithm.playground/Contents.swift
@@ -1,13 +1,7 @@
 //: Playground - noun: a place where people can play
 
-// last checked with Xcode 9.0b4
-#if swift(>=4.0)
-print("Hello, Swift 4!")
-#endif
-
 func ZetaAlgorithm(ptrn: String) -> [Int]? {
-
-  let pattern = Array(ptrn.characters)
+  let pattern = Array(ptrn)
   let patternLength = pattern.count
 
   guard patternLength > 0 else {
@@ -65,7 +59,7 @@ func ZetaAlgorithm(ptrn: String) -> [Int]? {
 extension String {
 
   func indexesOf(pattern: String) -> [Int]? {
-    let patternLength = pattern.characters.count
+    let patternLength = pattern.count
     let zeta = ZetaAlgorithm(ptrn: pattern + "💲" + self)
 
     guard zeta != nil else {
diff --git a/Z-Algorithm/ZetaAlgorithm.swift b/Z-Algorithm/ZetaAlgorithm.swift
index e60c1617f..f2c453364 100644
--- a/Z-Algorithm/ZetaAlgorithm.swift
+++ b/Z-Algorithm/ZetaAlgorithm.swift
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import Foundation
 extension String {
 
   func indexesOf(pattern: String) -> [Int]? {
-    let patternLength = pattern.characters.count
+    let patternLength = pattern.count
     let zeta = ZetaAlgorithm(ptrn: pattern + "💲" + self)
 
     guard zeta != nil else {