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  2. Regular expression - Wikipedia

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    Different syntaxes for writing regular expressions have existed since the 1980s, one being the POSIX standard and another, widely used, being the Perl syntax. Regular expressions are used in search engines, in search and replace dialogs of word processors and text editors, in text processing utilities such as sed and AWK, and in lexical ...

  3. Help:Manipulating strings - Wikipedia

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    On Wikipedia you can use a limited version of regex called a Lua pattern to select and modify bits of text from a string. The pattern is a piece of code describing what you are looking for in the string. The symbols you an use in a pattern are: . means any individual character. ... would mean any three characters, etc. *, +, ?, and -are the ...

  4. Wildcard character - Wikipedia

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    In SQL, wildcard characters can be used in LIKE expressions; the percent sign % matches zero or more characters, and underscore _ a single character. Transact-SQL also supports square brackets ([and ]) to list sets and ranges of characters to match, a leading caret ^ negates the set and matches only a character not within the list.

  5. Autocorrection - Wikipedia

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    Autocorrect in Windows 10, correcting the word "mispelled" to "misspelled".. Autocorrection, also known as text replacement, replace-as-you-type, text expander or simply autocorrect, is an automatic data validation function commonly found in word processors and text editing interfaces for smartphones and tablet computers.

  6. Metacharacter - Wikipedia

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    A metacharacter is a character that has a special meaning to a computer program, such as a shell interpreter or a regular expression (regex) engine.. In POSIX extended regular expressions, there are 14 metacharacters that must be escaped — preceded by a backslash (\) — in order to drop their special meaning and be treated literally inside an expression: opening and closing square brackets ...

  7. Comparison of programming languages (string functions)

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    However such languages may implement a subset of explicit string-specific functions as well. For function that manipulate strings, modern object-oriented languages, like C# and Java have immutable strings and return a copy (in newly allocated dynamic memory), while others, like C manipulate the original string unless the programmer copies data ...

  8. Help:Entering special characters - Wikipedia

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    Clicking a special-character link enters that character at the current position of the cursor in the edit window, so you need to position the cursor where you want it before clicking the link. Clicking the arrow to the left of Special characters above the edit window opens a list of groups of images of special characters (see Figure 1 below ...

  9. Edit distance - Wikipedia

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    Damerau–Levenshtein distance counts as a single edit a common mistake: transposition of two adjacent characters, formally characterized by an operation that changes u x y v into u y x v. [3] [4] For the task of correcting OCR output, merge and split operations have been used which replace a single character into a pair of them or vice versa. [4]