This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st Annual
Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching, CPM 2010, held in New York, USA, in June 2010.
The 28 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were
carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers address
all areas related to combinatorial pattern matching and its
applications, such as searching and matching strings and more
complicated patterns such as trees, regular expressions, graphs, point
sets, and arrays with special focus on coding and data compression,
computational biology, data mining, information retrieval, natural
language processing, pattern recognition, string algorithms, string
processing in databases, symbolic computing and text searching.
