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  Bash Reference Manual: Pattern Matching
may be matched by including it as the first or last character in the set.
Matches zero or one occurrence of the given patterns.
Matches anything except one of the given patterns.
www.faqs.org /docs/bashman/bashref_35.html   (289 words)

  
 Pattern Matching for Construct Validity
Pattern matching always involves an attempt to link two patterns where one is a theoretical pattern and the other is an observed or operational one.
The major differences between pattern matching and more traditional hypothesis testing approaches are that pattern matching encourages the use of more complex or detailed hypotheses and treats the observations from a multivariate rather than a univariate perspective.
While pattern matching can be used to address a variety of questions in social research, the emphasis here is on its use in assessing construct validity.
www.socialresearchmethods.net /kb/pmconval.htm   (1631 words)

  
  Pattern matching - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pattern matching is the act of checking for the presence of the constituents of a given pattern.
Depending on the languages, pattern matching can be used for function arguments, in case expressions, whenever new variables are bound, or in very limited situations such as only for sequences in assignment in Python.
Pattern matching benefits most when the underlying datastructures are as simple and flexible as possible.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pattern_matching   (1685 words)

  
 WDVL: Perl Pattern Matching: Regular Expressions
Pattern matching is an integral, but somewhat complex, aspect of Perl programming; in fact, pattern matching is the very basis of inspiration for using Perl in many programming tasks.
Rudimentary pattern matching is probably familiar to many readers; in MS-DOS or Unix command lines, for example, you might request a directory listing for "*.txt" -- which, of course, means "all filenames which end with.txt".
In the first, we test to see whether a match against a piece of data is true (matches) or false (does not match); in the second, we use the constructed template to perform a "search and replace" on a matched pattern within a piece of data.
www.wdvl.com /Authoring/Languages/Perl/PerlfortheWeb/pattern_matching.html   (2040 words)

  
 Selectors
Matches element E if E is the source anchor of a hyperlink of which the target is not yet visited (:link) or already visited (:visited).
matches a P element that is a grandchild or later descendant of a DIV element.
It matches a P element that is a descendant of an LI; the LI element must be the child of an OL element; the OL element must be a descendant of a DIV.
www.w3.org /TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html   (4082 words)

  
 Pattern matching
Pattern matching is important across a wide variety of Web programming tasks but most notably when looking for exceptions in user-entered data and when trying to parse information out of non-cooperating Web sites.
It tests whether the string matches the pattern, returns 1 if there is a match and zero otherwise, and sets the match variable to the part of the string that matched the pattern:
The pattern variables after the first are set to the substrings that matched the subpatterns.
philip.greenspun.com /tcl/pattern-matching.adp   (1023 words)

  
 PostgreSQL: Documentation: Manuals: PostgreSQL 7.2: Pattern Matching
patterns, a regular expression is allowed to match anywhere within a string, unless the regular expression is explicitly anchored to the beginning or end of the string.
matches a sequence of 0 or 1 matches of the atom.
Subexpressions also match the longest possible substrings, subject to the constraint that the whole match be as long as possible, with subexpressions starting earlier in the RE taking priority over ones starting later.
www.postgresql.org /docs/7.2/static/functions-matching.html   (1436 words)

  
 Categories of pattern matching characters
Alternation and grouping matching- You wish to group characters to be considered as a single entity or add an "OR" logic to your pattern matching.
Back reference matching- You wish to refer back to a subexpression in the same regular expression to perform matches where one match is based on the result of an earlier match.
(\w+)\s+\1 matches any word that occurs twice in a row, such as "hubba hubba." The \1 denotes that the first word after the space must match the portion of the string that matched the pattern in the last set of parentheses.
www.wsabstract.com /javatutors/re2.shtml   (785 words)

  
 December 1997/Filename Pattern Matching   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
A pattern composed entirely of normal characters is a special case since it matches only one filename, the same filename as the whole pattern.
Matching proceeds from the leftmost to the rightmost subpattern.
This is accomplished by assuming that the closure subpattern initially matches zero characters in the filename (starting at the current position in the filename), and then recursively attempting to match the rest of the pattern against the rest of the candidate filename.
www.tcnj.edu /~hernande/cujv5/html/15.12/tribble/tribble.htm   (1966 words)

  
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Only those rows in the input file that match the pattern you specify are output to XML when the file is converted.
Match Pattern property, Stylus Studio displays the input file in the Convert to XML Editor as shown in Figure 190 - green check marks identify the rows that match the pattern, and red X's identify the rows that do not.
Match Pattern fields contain default values that reflect the currently selected row in the document pane or node in the schema pane.
www.stylusstudio.com /docs/v2006/d_flatfileconversion28.html   (886 words)

  
 Day 7 -- Pattern Matching
/\w\W/ matches a particular pair of characters, the first character is part of a word and the second is not; this means that the first character is the end of a word, and that a word boundary exists between the first and second characters matched by the pattern.
matches a pair of characters, the first character is not part of a word and the second character is. This means that the second character is the beginning of a word.
Because the pattern to be matched is too long to fit on one line, this program breaks it into pieces and assigns the pieces to scalar variables.
docs.rinet.ru /P7/ch7.htm   (7917 words)

  
 AIML Pattern Matching Simplified (A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation)
The root of the Graphmaster is a Nodemapper with about 2000 branches, one for each of the first words of all the patterns (40,000 in the case of the A.L.I.C.E. brain).
If no match was found, go back up the graph to the parent of this node, and put "X" back on the head of the input.
A convenient metaphor for AIML patterns, and perhaps also an alternative to database storage of patterns and templates, is the file system.
www.alicebot.org /documentation/matching.html   (1160 words)

  
 match
A pattern expression is constructed with the aid of atoms and operators.
AnyOf atom can be used instead of the alternation, it is preferable, because it is matched faster and the time of matching depends on neither the number of alternated characters nor their order.
The user defined patterns are pre translated patterns which addresses are returned by the GetExternalPattern function, which binds unknown identifiers with user defined patterns.
www.dmitry-kazakov.de /match/match.htm   (3824 words)

  
 Pattern (Java 2 Platform SE v1.4.2)
If a pattern is to be used multiple times, compiling it once and reusing it will be more efficient than invoking this method each time.
The array returned by this method contains each substring of the input sequence that is terminated by another subsequence that matches this pattern or is terminated by the end of the input sequence.
If this pattern does not match any subsequence of the input then the resulting array has just one element, namely the input sequence in string form.
java.sun.com /j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html   (1992 words)

  
 PostgreSQL: Documentation: Manuals: PostgreSQL 8.0: Pattern Matching
Thus, writing a pattern that actually matches a literal backslash means writing four backslashes in the statement.
It matches a match for the first, followed by a match for the second, etc; an empty branch matches the empty string.
Once the length of the entire match is determined, the part of it that matches any particular subexpression is determined on the basis of the greediness attribute of that subexpression, with subexpressions starting earlier in the RE taking priority over ones starting later.
www.postgresql.org /docs/8.0/interactive/functions-matching.html   (3609 words)

  
 Pattern Matching
In this unit children explore lines of symmetry in pictures, shapes and patterns and describe the symmetry by stating that the parts on either side of the line of symmetry are the same.
As far as geometry is concerned, symmetry is important in classifying shapes (regular polygons versus non-regular polygons), in patterns, in tessellations, and later in curves in co-ordinate geometry.
The paper is then folded to create the matching pattern on the other side of the paper.
www.nzmaths.co.nz /Geometry/Symmetry/PatternMatching.aspx   (1377 words)

  
 MySQL AB :: MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 3.3.4.7 Pattern Matching
In MySQL, SQL patterns are case-insensitive by default.
pattern match succeeds if the pattern matches anywhere in the value being tested.
Because a regular expression pattern matches if it occurs anywhere in the value, it is not necessary in the previous query to put a wildcard on either side of the pattern to get it to match the entire value like it would be if you used an SQL pattern.
dev.mysql.com /doc/refman/5.0/en/pattern-matching.html   (729 words)

  
 The Scala Programming Language: Pattern Matching
It allows to match on any sort of data with a first-match policy.
The third case consists of a typed pattern; it matches against any integer and binds the selector value
Scala's pattern matching statement is most useful for matching on algebraic types expressed via case classes.
scala.epfl.ch /intro/patmatch.html   (214 words)

  
 Pattern Matching Pointers (maintained by Stefano Lonardi)
Combinatorial Pattern Matching addresses issues of searching and matching strings and more complicated patterns such as trees, regular expressions, graphs, point sets, and arrays.
The goal is to derive non-trivial combinatorial properties for such structures and then to exploit these properties in order to achieve improved performance for the corresponding computational problem.
This area is expected to grow even further due to the increasing demand for speed and efficiency that comes from molecular biology, but also from areas such as information retrieval, pattern recognition, compiling, data compression, program analysis and security.
www.cs.ucr.edu /~stelo/pattern.html   (352 words)

  
 PostgreSQL: Documentation: Manuals: PostgreSQL 8.1: Pattern Matching
SIMILAR TO operator returns true or false depending on whether its pattern matches the given string.
SIMILAR TO, the specified pattern must match to the entire data string, else the function fails and returns null.
to indicate that the substring matching the entire pattern should be inserted.
www.postgresql.org /docs/8.1/interactive/functions-matching.html   (3793 words)

  
 More on Pattern Matching and Regular Expressions
This program demonstrates additional examples of pattern matching and substitution operations using regular expressions.
Some of the more common regular expression "metacharacters" used for pattern matching are outlined in the charts below.
## Sentences with either an "o" or an "e" in them $pattern = '[oe]'; print "Searching for: $pattern\n"; foreach(@strings) { s/$pattern/x/g; # The "g" modifyer means "global", or replace all } # occurrences of the "o" or "e" found on that line.
www.tjhsst.edu /~dhyatt/perl/exA.html   (586 words)

  
 Wiley::Computer Algorithms: String Pattern Matching Strategies
Fast Pattern Matching in Strings (D.E. Knuth, J.H. Morris, and V.R. Pratt from SIAM Journal of Computing, June 1977).
Pattern Matching in Trees (C.M. Hoffmann and M.J. O'Donnell from Journal of the ACM, January 1982).
A Technique for Two-Dimensional Pattern Matching (R.F. Zhu and T. Takaoka from Communications of the ACM, September 1989).
www.wiley.com /WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0818654627,descCd-tableOfContents.html?print=true   (309 words)

  
 Wiley::Computer Algorithms: String Pattern Matching Strategies
Introduces the basic concepts and characteristics of string pattern matching strategies and provides numerous references for further reading.
The text describes and evaluates the BF, KMP, BM, and KR algorithms, discusses improvements for string pattern matching machines, and details a technique for detecting and removing the redundant operation of the AC machine.
In addition, the reader will find a description for applying string pattern matching algorithms to multidimensional matching problems, an investigation of numerous hardware-based solutions for pattern matching, and an examination of hardware approaches for full text search.
www.wiley.com /WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0818654627.html   (196 words)

  
 Records & pattern matching   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
On Monday 17 April 2006 04:19, Jérémie Lumbroso wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to do a regular pattern matching using the #record{name = > "Me", _='_'} construct to do regular pattern matching.
Am I obligated to explicitly define my tuplet for the > pattern matching, i.e.
You only have to specify the fields you want to match on, so you write case X of #record{name = "Me"} ->...
www.erlang.org /pipermail/erlang-questions/2006-April/020032.html   (141 words)

  
 EBI Tools:: Pratt - Pattern Matching, search for patterns conserved in sets of unaligned protein sequences
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An important problem in sequence analysis is to find patterns matching sets or subsets of sequences.This tool allows the user to search for patterns conserved in sets of unaligned protein sequences.
The user can specify what kind of patterns should be searched for, and how many sequences should match a pattern to be reported.
www.ebi.ac.uk /pratt   (164 words)

  
 pattern matching module - Snort Forums Archive
Archive Home » Snort Development » pattern matching module
I want to check the effectiveness of a pattern matching module, developed by me, using snort.
How I measure the memory requirement of this pattern matching module.
www.snort.org /archive-4-2037.html   (118 words)

  
 Records & pattern matching   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
I am trying to do a regular pattern matching using the #record{name = "Me", _='_'} construct to do regular pattern matching.
But it does not seem to work as expected (I am not using the match_object method of anything).
Am I obligated to explicitly define my tuplet for the pattern matching, i.e.
www.erlang.org /ml-archive/erlang-questions/200604/msg00146.html   (76 words)

  
 how interface a new pattern matching module - Snort Forums Archive
Archive Home » Snort Development » how interface a new pattern matching module
I want to interface a new pattern matching module to snort.
What are the steps required and how it is done.
www.snort.org /archive-4-2035.html   (119 words)

  
 Regular Expressions: Introduction - Doc JavaScript
In each example you'll learn how you can use regular expressions in JavaScript to analyze the user's input and verify such things as a false or malformed e-mail address or phone number.
The first part covers regular expressions and pattern matching in general, while the second deals with the JavaScript implementation.
The second part of this column consists of useful examples for you to cut and paste, including a general feedback form (no CGI here).
www.webreference.com /js/column5   (329 words)

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