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A string is a sequence of characters. It is commonly used to represent text or a sequence of bytes. Use this tag along with the appropriate programming language being used.

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C++ edit distance / string similarity function based on the Jaro-Winkler algorithm

I wrote a short library function, based on an example from Rosetta, to compare two strings and determine similarity, using Jaro-Winkler. …
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Variadic function to find the first matching (string) argument in a larger array

* @param str One or many strings to search for * @returns std::pair<argument index, end of match index in buffer> */ template <size_t... …
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