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

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From	richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
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Subject	Re: ( Substring function in Python, Lisp) -- [Hijack] contains [hijk]
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In article <87v7tabai9.fsf@nightsong.com>,
Paul Rubin  <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:

>> $ 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.

Or, closer to (my) home, "Kilmarnock".

-- Richard

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