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If the character 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. This can be accomplished as a special case of #Find , with a string of one character; but it may be simpler or more efficient in many languages to ...
Anonymous functions are often arguments being passed to higher-order functions or used for constructing the result of a higher-order function that needs to return a function. [1] If the function is only used once, or a limited number of times, an anonymous function may be syntactically lighter than using a named function.
Using the "<nowiki>" tag hides the text but counts as +34 characters. So, for the case Nw2, the length is 4+34+4=42, and Nw3 yielded 4+34+2=40 characters long. The mw.text.unstrip function at MediaWiki's "Lua reference manual" (which is not yet live) may be of help with the nowiki tags.
The decoding process involves reconstructing the original data from the encoded format by repeating characters according to their counts. The steps are as follows: Traverse the encoded data. For each count-character pair, repeat the character count times. Append these characters to the result string.
In information theory, linguistics, and computer science, the Levenshtein distance is a string metric for measuring the difference between two sequences. The Levenshtein distance between two words is the minimum number of single-character edits (insertions, deletions or substitutions) required to change one word into the other.
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]
In the science of measurement, the least count of a measuring instrument is the smallest value in the measured quantity that can be resolved on the instrument's scale. [1] The least count is related to the precision of an instrument; an instrument that can measure smaller changes in a value relative to another instrument, has a smaller "least ...
The x must be lowercase in XML documents. The nnnn or hhhh may be any number of digits and may include leading zeros. The hhhh may mix uppercase and lowercase, though uppercase is the usual style. In contrast, a character entity reference refers to a character by the name of an entity which has the desired character as its replacement text.