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  2. Comparison of programming languages (string functions)

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    String functions common to many languages are listed below, including the different names used. The below list of common functions aims to help programmers find the equivalent function in a language. Note, string concatenation and regular expressions are handled in separate pages. Statements in guillemets (« … ») are optional.

  3. Substring - Wikipedia

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    string" is a substring of "substring" In formal language theory and computer science, a substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string. [citation needed] For instance, "the best of" is a substring of "It was the best of times". In contrast, "Itwastimes" is a subsequence of "It was the best of times", but not a substring.

  4. Longest common substring - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, a longest common substring of two or more strings is a longest string that is a substring of all of them. There may be more than one longest common substring. Applications include data deduplication and plagiarism detection.

  5. Delimiter - Wikipedia

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    Another example of a delimiter is the time gap used to separate letters and words in the transmission of Morse code. [ citation needed ] In mathematics , delimiters are often used to specify the scope of an operation , and can occur both as isolated symbols (e.g., colon in " 1 : 4 {\displaystyle 1:4} ") and as a pair of opposing-looking symbols ...

  6. Approximate string matching - Wikipedia

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    A fuzzy Mediawiki search for "angry emoticon" has as a suggested result "andré emotions" In computer science, approximate string matching (often colloquially referred to as fuzzy string searching) is the technique of finding strings that match a pattern approximately (rather than exactly).

  7. Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia

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    From its first version Excel supported end-user programming of macros (automation of repetitive tasks) and user-defined functions (extension of Excel's built-in function library). In early versions of Excel, these programs were written in a macro language whose statements had formula syntax and resided in the cells of special-purpose macro ...

  8. Syntax (programming languages) - Wikipedia

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    a list is a matched pair of parentheses, with zero or more expressions inside it. Here the decimal digits, upper- and lower-case characters, and parentheses are terminal symbols. The following are examples of well-formed token sequences in this grammar: '12345', '()', '(A B C232 (1))'

  9. XSLT elements - Wikipedia

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    substring A segment within a variable value. Substring takes three parameters: the input variable, the first character to be selected, and the length of the resulting string