string substitution

English

Noun

string substitution (plural string substitutions)

  1. (programming) The semantics-free search and replacement of one specific sequence of characters with another.
  2. (computational linguistics) A mapping of letters to sets of strings, which creates a closed operation for regular and context-free languages.
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