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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 formal language theory and computer science, a substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string.[citation needed] For instance, "the...
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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 programming, string interpolation (or variable interpolation, variable substitution, or variable expansion) is the process of evaluating a...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • In formal language theory and computer programming, string concatenation is the operation of joining character strings end-to-end. For example, the concatenation...
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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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  • 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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  • Docblock (category String (computer science))
    In programming, a docblock or DocBlock is a specially formatted comment specified in source code that is used to document a specific segment of code. This...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Alternation (formal language theory) (category String (computer science))
    In formal language theory and pattern matching, alternation is the union of two sets of strings, or equivalently the logical disjunction of two patterns...
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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 consists of words whose letters are taken from an alphabet and are well-formed...
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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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  • In computer science, string-searching algorithms, sometimes called string-matching algorithms, are an important class of string algorithms that try to...
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    demonstration – Technique for teaching a computer or a robot new behaviors String interpolation – Replacing placeholders in a string with values Oxford English Dictionary...
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  • In computer science, an integer is a datum of integral data type, a data type that represents some range of mathematical integers. Integral data types...
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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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