A state machine engine may be configured to recognize (e.g., detect) a great number of patterns in a data stream. This may be accomplished via detection cells of state machine elements that output a respective result of an analysis performed by the respective state machine elements, for example, a match in an analyzed data stream from a single state machine element, which may be utilized in conjunction with results from other state machine elements, for example, to search for a pattern in a data stream. These matches may be provided to a match element, which may operate to output a selected result generated from a row of state machine elements for a given data stream search or a portion of a data stream search.