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Substring

Definition:

A substring refers to a contiguous sequence of characters within a given string. It is a smaller part of a larger string.

Examples:

Noun - Computer Science:

In computer science, a substring is often used to refer to a portion of a string that is extracted or manipulated for various purposes. For example: "Hello World" is a string, whereas "Hello" or "World" are examples of substrings.

Noun - Mathematics:

In mathematics, a substring is a sequence of consecutive characters in a given string. Finding substrings and analyzing their properties is an important aspect of many mathematical algorithms.

Verb:

When used as a verb, substring refers to the action of extracting a smaller string from a larger one. For instance, you can substring a sentence to focus on specific words or characters that are of interest.

Sample Sentences:

• I need to find a substring within this text.
• Please substring the phrase "Lorem ipsum" from the given paragraph.
• She successfully extracted a substring from the massive dataset.

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