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  2. Approximate string matching - Wikipedia

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    The closeness of a match is measured in terms of the number of primitive operations necessary to convert the string into an exact match. This number is called the edit distance between the string and the pattern. The usual primitive operations are: [1] insertion: cot → coat; deletion: coat → cot; substitution: coat → cost

  3. Trie - Wikipedia

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    Instead, each node's position within the trie determines its associated key, with the connections between nodes defined by individual characters rather than the entire key. Tries are particularly effective for tasks such as autocomplete, spell checking, and IP routing, offering advantages over hash tables due to their prefix-based organization ...

  4. Pattern matching - Wikipedia

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    will match elements such as A[1], A[2], or more generally A[x] where x is any entity. In this case, A is the concrete element, while _ denotes the piece of tree that can be varied. A symbol prepended to _ binds the match to that variable name while a symbol appended to _ restricts the matches to nodes of that symbol.

  5. String-searching algorithm - Wikipedia

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    A simple and inefficient way to see where one string occurs inside another is to check at each index, one by one. First, we see if there is a copy of the needle starting at the first character of the haystack; if not, we look to see if there's a copy of the needle starting at the second character of the haystack, and so forth.

  6. Regular expression - Wikipedia

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    Prior to the use of regular expressions, many search languages allowed simple wildcards, for example "*" to match any sequence of characters, and "?" to match a single character. Relics of this can be found today in the glob syntax for filenames, and in the SQL LIKE operator.

  7. Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Then if P is shifted to k 2 such that its left end is between c and k 1, in the next comparison phase a prefix of P must match the substring T[(k 2 - n)..k 1]. Thus if the comparisons get down to position k 1 of T, an occurrence of P can be recorded without explicitly comparing past k 1. In addition to increasing the efficiency of Boyer–Moore ...

  8. Python syntax and semantics - Wikipedia

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    Python supports normal floating point numbers, which are created when a dot is used in a literal (e.g. 1.1), when an integer and a floating point number are used in an expression, or as a result of some mathematical operations ("true division" via the / operator, or exponentiation with a negative exponent).

  9. Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, the Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm (or KMP algorithm) is a string-searching algorithm that searches for occurrences of a "word" W within a main "text string" S by employing the observation that when a mismatch occurs, the word itself embodies sufficient information to determine where the next match could begin, thus bypassing re-examination of previously matched characters.