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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]
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:18:32 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <7513d4f4cf89bfd31edda3eb5ed84052@www.novabbs.com>,
HenHanna  <HenHanna@dev.null> wrote:

>A few weeks ago,  i was curious to see What English words contained  (
>abcd...  )  consecutive letters of the alphabet.
>
>         defrag          defg
>         defang          defg
>         defog           defg
>
>         hijack          hijk
>
>________________________________(Is there such a word containing 5
>letters? )

$ 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

-- Richard