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Programming Pearls, 2nd Edition
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Programming Pearls, 2nd Edition

by Jon Bentley
September 1999
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h 38m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from Programming Pearls, 2nd Edition

Column 15: Strings of Pearls

We are surrounded by strings. Strings of bits make integers and floating-point numbers. Strings of digits make telephone numbers, and strings of characters make words. Long strings of characters make web pages, and longer strings yet make books. Extremely long strings represented by the letters A, C, G and T are in geneticists’ databases and deep inside the cells of many readers of this book.

Programs perform a dazzling variety of operations on such strings. They sort them, count them, search them, and analyze them to discern patterns. This column introduces those topics by examining a few classic problems on strings.

15.1 Words

Our first problem is to produce a list of the words contained in a document. (Feed such ...

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