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Subject: Re: ( Substring function in Python, Lisp)  --  [Hijack]  contains  [hijk]
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:37:11 +0000
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On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 7:43:10 +0000, Paul Rubin wrote:

> 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.


       ___________How about   alphabetically  backwards?


            eponym          ponm

            gifted          gfed


      __________ short Python program for Subseq (with & without using
RE) ?