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  2. Comparison of programming languages (string functions)

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    For function that manipulate strings, modern object-oriented languages, like C# and Java have immutable strings and return a copy (in newly allocated dynamic memory), while others, like C manipulate the original string unless the programmer copies data to a new string.

  3. Wildcard character - Wikipedia

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    In software, a wildcard character is a kind of placeholder represented by a single character, such as an asterisk (*), which can be interpreted as a number of literal characters or an empty string. It is often used in file searches so the full name need not be typed.

  4. Approximate string matching - Wikipedia

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    This number is called the edit distance between the string and the pattern. The usual primitive operations are: [1] insertion: cot → coat; deletion: coat → cot; substitution: coat → cost; These three operations may be generalized as forms of substitution by adding a NULL character (here symbolized by *) wherever a character has been ...

  5. Substitute character - Wikipedia

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    Some modern text file formats (e.g. CSV-1203 [10]) still recommend a trailing EOF character to be appended as the last character in the file. However, typing Control+Z does not embed an EOF character into a file in either DOS or Windows, nor do the APIs of those systems use the character to denote the actual end of a file.

  6. Trie - Wikipedia

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    Each character in the string key set is represented via individual bits, which are used to traverse the trie over a string key. The implementations for these types of trie use vectorized CPU instructions to find the first set bit in a fixed-length key input (e.g. GCC 's __builtin_clz() intrinsic function ).

  7. Question mark - Wikipedia

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    In shell and scripting languages, the question mark is often utilized as a wildcard character: a symbol that can be used to substitute for any other character or characters in a string. In particular, filename globbing uses "?" as a substitute for any one character, as opposed to the asterisk, "*", which matches zero or more characters in a string.

  8. Dictionary coder - Wikipedia

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    A dictionary coder, also sometimes known as a substitution coder, is a class of lossless data compression algorithms which operate by searching for matches between the text to be compressed and a set of strings contained in a data structure (called the 'dictionary') maintained by the encoder. When the encoder finds such a match, it substitutes ...

  9. Meson (software) - Wikipedia

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    The syntax of Meson's build description files, the Meson language, borrows from Python, but is not Python. It is designed such that it can be reimplemented in any other language; [9] for example, muon [10] is a C implementation, and Meson++ [11] is a C++ implementation. The dependency on Python is an implementation detail.