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Re: ( Substring function in Python, Lisp) -- [Hijack] contains [hijk]

From Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups rec.puzzles, comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.python
Subject Re: ( Substring function in Python, Lisp) -- [Hijack] contains [hijk]
Date 2025-02-15 23:43 -0800
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <87v7tabai9.fsf@nightsong.com> (permalink)
References <7513d4f4cf89bfd31edda3eb5ed84052@www.novabbs.com> <voraso$mkp$1@macpro.inf.ed.ac.uk>

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richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:
> $ awk 'BEGIN {for(i=97; i<=118; i++) printf("%c.*%c.*%c.*%c.*%c\n", i,
> i+1, i+2, i+3, i+4);}' | while read e; do grep -i $e
> /usr/share/dict/words; done

Nice!  That picked up "Kilimanjaro" which my more complicated Python
script missed, because it didn't case-fold.

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( Substring function in Python, Lisp)  --  [Hijack]  contains  [hijk] HenHanna <HenHanna@dev.null> - 2025-02-15 21:36 +0000
  Re: ( Substring function in Python, Lisp)  --  [Hijack]  contains  [hijk] richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2025-02-16 00:18 +0000
    Re: ( Substring function in Python, Lisp)  --  [Hijack]  contains  [hijk] Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2025-02-15 23:43 -0800
      Re: ( Substring function in Python, Lisp)  --  [Hijack]  contains  [hijk] HenHanna <HenHanna@dev.null> - 2025-02-16 13:37 +0000
      Re: ( Substring function in Python, Lisp)  --  [Hijack]  contains  [hijk] richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2025-02-16 19:02 +0000
  Re: ( Substring function in Python, Lisp) -- [Hijack] contains [hijk] "Carl G." <carlgnews@microprizes.com> - 2025-02-16 11:44 -0800
  Re: ( Substring function in Python, Lisp)  --  [Hijack]  contains  [hijk] HenHanna <HenHanna@dev.null> - 2025-02-17 11:50 +0000
  Re: ( Substring function in Python, Lisp) -- [Hijack] contains [hijk] "B. Pym" <Nobody447095@here-nor-there.org> - 2025-06-06 15:17 +0000

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