substring
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thumb|"string" is a substring of "substring"
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thumb|"string" is a substring of "substring"
In formal language theory and computer science, a substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string. For instance, "the best of" is a substring of "It was the best of times". In contrast, "Itwastimes" is a subsequence of "It was the best of times", but not a substring.
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