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    languages, which are used in mathematical logic and theoretical computer science, a string is a finite sequence of symbols that are chosen from a set called...
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  • In computer science, string interning is a method of storing only one copy of each distinct string value, which must be immutable. Interning strings makes...
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  • In computer programming, string interpolation (or variable interpolation, variable substitution, or variable expansion) is the process of evaluating a...
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    In formal language theory and computer science, a substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string. For instance, "the best of" is a substring...
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  • In computer science, interning is re-using objects of equal value on-demand instead of creating new objects. This creational pattern is frequently used...
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  • A query string is a part of a uniform resource locator (URL) that assigns values to specified parameters. A query string commonly includes fields added...
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  • In computer science, in the area of formal language theory, frequent use is made of a variety of string functions; however, the notation used is different...
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  • In formal language theory, the empty string, or empty word, is the unique string of length zero. Formally, a string is a finite, ordered sequence of characters...
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  • String functions are used in computer programming languages to manipulate a string or query information about a string (some do both). Most programming...
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  • A string literal or anonymous string is a literal for a string value in the source code of a computer program. Modern programming languages commonly use...
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  • Partial word (category String (computer science))
    In computer science and the study of combinatorics on words, a partial word is a string that may contain a number of "do not know" or "do not care" symbols...
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  • unit). This means a string cannot contain the zero code unit, as the first one seen marks the end of the string. The length of a string is the number of...
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  • protein-protein interactions String (computer science), sequence of alphanumeric text or other symbols in computer programming String (C++), a class in the C++...
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  • In computing, a connection string is a string that specifies information about a data source and the means of connecting to it. It is passed in code to...
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  • Concatenation theory (category String (computer science))
    of characters, signs, symbols, or marks. String theory is foundational for formal linguistics, computer science, logic, and metamathematics especially proof...
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  • language has support for string handling, mostly implemented in its standard library. The language standard specifies several string types, some inherited...
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  • computer programming, trimming (trim) or stripping (strip) is a string manipulation in which leading and trailing whitespace is removed from a string...
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  • Maximal pair (category String (computer science))
    In computer science, a maximal pair within a string is a pair of matching substrings that are maximal, where "maximal" means that it is not possible to...
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  • Comparison of programming languages (strings) (category String (computer science))
    (strings) compares the features of string data structures or text-string processing for over 52 various computer programming languages. Different languages...
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    Wikifunctions has a concat function. In formal language theory and computer programming, string concatenation is the operation of joining character strings end-to-end...
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  • In programming, a docstring is a string literal specified in source code that is used, like a comment, to document a specific segment of code. Unlike conventional...
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  • Here document (redirect from Here-string)
    computing, a here document (here-document, here-text, heredoc, hereis, here-string or here-script) is a file literal or input stream literal: it is a section...
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  • 1023/A:1010000313106. ISSN 1573-0557. S2CID 14124601. Tucker, Allen B. (2004). Computer Science Handbook (2nd ed.). Taylor & Francis. pp. 91–. ISBN 978-1-58488-360-9...
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  • Computer science (also called computing science) is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and...
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    In computer science, approximate string matching (often colloquially referred to as fuzzy string searching) is the technique of finding strings that match...
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    Delimiter (category String (computer science))
    Matt (2000). Computer-Aided Reasoning: An Approach. Springer. ISBN 0-7923-7744-3.p. 3 Meyer, Mark (2005). Explorations in Computer Science. Oxford Oxfordshire:...
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    In logic, mathematics, computer science, and linguistics, a formal language is a set of strings whose symbols are taken from a set called "alphabet". The...
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  • In computational linguistics and computer science, edit distance is a string metric, i.e. a way of quantifying how dissimilar two strings (e.g., words)...
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  • An incompressible string is a string with Kolmogorov complexity equal to its length, so that it has no shorter encodings. The pigeonhole principle can...
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    Strings (Unix) (category String (computer science))
    strings is a shell command that extracts printable character strings from a file – which is particular useful for analyzing the content of a binary file...
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