PATTERNMATCHING

Pattern matching

In computer science, pattern matching is the act of checking a perceived sequence of tokens for the presence of the constituents of some pattern. In contrast to pattern recognition, the match usually has to be exact. The patterns generally have the form of either sequences or tree structures. Uses of pattern matching include outputting the locations of a pattern within a token sequence, to output some component of the matched pattern, and to substitute the matching pattern with some other token sequence .

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pattern matching

Noun

pattern matching

  1. the act of checking some sequence of tokens for the presence of the constituents of a pattern


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