string substitution (English, noun)
expansion: string substitution (plural string substitutions)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The semantics-free search and replacement of one sequence of text characters with another.
topics: computational
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mapping of letters to sets of strings, which creates a closed operation for regular and context-free languages.
Forms:
form: string substitutions
tags: plural