substring

Part within string

A substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a larger string.

In programming and text processing, extracting substrings is fundamental: The substring "cat" appears in "concatenate".

Any string is technically a substring of itself, and the empty string is a substring of everything.

extraction

slice

Portion cut off

segmentDistinct part of whole
portionDivided share given
snippetSmall cut portion

section · piece · chunk · part · component · element · bit · sample · cut · division

programming

function

Purpose or duty

methodOrderly way of doing
algorithmFinite problem-solving procedure
implementationPutting plans into effect

indexing · iteration · parameter · argument · return · variable · characters · manipulation · concatenation · length

search

find

Locate through effort

locateDiscover the position of
matchGame between opponents
patternRecurring arrangement or template

grep · regex · index · position · occurrence · scan · contains · search · lookup · detect

analysis

pattern

Recurring arrangement or template

recognitionPerceiving something as known
sequenceOrdered succession of elements
lengthMeasure of extent

position · characters · evaluate · text · data · frequency · comparison · alignment · similarity · distance

Categories

crosswordsacross, cryptic, acrostic, clues, codeword
data typesint, integer, float, char, bool
shell scriptingbash, shebang, scripts, source, sourcing
string functionsreplace, concatenate, trim, strip, split
database operationsselect, insert, update, delete, query
string formattingplaceholder, interpolation, percent sign, curly braces, precision

Opposites

containment relationship

substringsuperstring

One-dimensional theoretical entity

match scope

substringexact match

Perfect one-to-one correspondence

part-whole relation

substringstring

Slender fiber or character sequence

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