strings

Additional functions for manipulation and analysis of strings.

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Search and replace

pcregexp
Perl-compatible regular expression matching.

Operations

editdistance
Compute the Levenshtein edit distance between the two strings.
cstrcmp
Compare strings S1 and S2 like the C function.

Conversion

base64encode
Convert X into string of printable characters according to RFC 2045.
base64decode
Convert a base64 CODE (a string of printable characters according to RFC 2045) into the original ASCII data set of range 0-255.

Package: strings