NIST

approximate string matching

(algorithm)

Definition: See string matching with errors.

Author: CRC-A

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Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, CRC Press LLC, 1999, "approximate string matching", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 2 September 2014. (accessed TODAY) Available from: /HTML/approximateStringMatching.html