substringn.
/ˈsʌbstrɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈsəbˌstrɪŋ/ Chiefly Mathematics and Computing.
A string (string n. 15c) contained within a larger string; a portion of a string that is itself a string.
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1947 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 12 1 A string R is said to be a substring of a string S if S can be written in the form URV.
1963 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 109 479 A substring of A is defined to be a string over P which is a subset of A.
1973 Jrnl. Cuneiform Stud. 25 12 Breaking down the string into substrings, and repeating the steps of the analysis.
1997 G. W. Scragg Probl. Solving with Computers xi. 197 Each initial is a substring of one name and the complete set of initials is composed of the individual initials.
2004 G. D. Ritchie Ling. Anal. Jokes iii. 34 A particular variant of this is the use of a substring of the text as if it were a morpheme.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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