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  2. glob (programming) - Wikipedia

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    A screenshot of the original 1971 Unix reference page for glob – the owner is dmr, short for Dennis Ritchie.. glob() (/ ɡ l ɒ b /) is a libc function for globbing, which is the archetypal use of pattern matching against the names in a filesystem directory such that a name pattern is expanded into a list of names matching that pattern.

  3. Comparison of programming languages (string functions)

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    find(string,substring) returns integer Description Returns the position of the start of the first occurrence of substring in string. If the substring is not found most of these routines return an invalid index value – -1 where indexes are 0-based, 0 where they are 1-based – or some value to be interpreted as Boolean FALSE. Related instrrev

  4. Cerner CCL - Wikipedia

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    CCL is patterned after the Structured Query Language (SQL). All Cerner Millennium health information technology software uses CCL/Discern Explorer to select from, insert into, update into and delete from a Cerner Millennium database and allows a programmer to fetch data from an Oracle database and display it as the user wants to see. With ...

  5. SQL syntax - Wikipedia

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    Each column in an SQL table declares the type(s) that column may contain. ANSI SQL includes the following data types. [14] Character strings and national character strings. CHARACTER(n) (or CHAR(n)): fixed-width n-character string, padded with spaces as needed; CHARACTER VARYING(n) (or VARCHAR(n)): variable-width string with a maximum size of n ...

  6. Delimiter-separated values - Wikipedia

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    A delimited text file is a text file used to store data, in which each line represents a single book, company, or other thing, and each line has fields separated by the delimiter. [3] Compared to the kind of flat file that uses spaces to force every field to the same width, a delimited file has the advantage of allowing field values of any ...

  7. Substring - Wikipedia

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    The first occurrence is obtained with = b and = na, while the second occurrence is obtained with = ban and being the empty string. A substring of a string is a prefix of a suffix of the string, and equivalently a suffix of a prefix; for example, nan is a prefix of nana , which is in turn a suffix of banana .

  8. 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).

  9. String interpolation - Wikipedia

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    The placeholder may be a variable name, or in some languages an arbitrary expression, in either case evaluated in the current context. String interpolation is an alternative to building string via concatenation , which requires repeat quoting and unquoting; [ 2 ] or substituting into a printf format string , where the variable is far from where ...