Chapter 9. More Complex Utilities and Tricks, Part I

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This chapter is the first of two that explore more complex operations in Ruby. This one deals extensively with text manipulations and larger-scale searches, while the next details an important functional technique that expands your options for abstraction in a very powerful way. For now, let’s dive right in to learn some text processing techniques.

#34 Finding Codes in the Bible or Moby-Dick (els_parser.rb)

This script analyzes a phenomenon in large texts called equidistant letter sequences (ELSes). These sequences are popularly known as Bible Codes or Torah Codes, largely due to their description ...

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