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    Chapter 17. String Matching

    Chapter 17. String Matching

    Chapter 16 concentrated on efficient techniques for finding one string within another. This chapter focuses on matching whole strings, and, in particular, attempting to find matches between non-identical yet similar strings. This can be very useful for detecting duplicate entries in a database, spell-checking documents, and even searching for genes in DNA.

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