pmatchPattern {Biostrings} | R Documentation

## Longest Common Prefix/Suffix/Substring searching functions

### Description

Functions for searching the Longest Common Prefix/Suffix/Substring of two strings.

WARNING: These functions are experimental and might not work properly! Full documentation will come later.

Please send questions/comments to hpages@fredhutch.org

Thanks for your comprehension!

### Usage

    lcprefix(s1, s2)
    lcsuffix(s1, s2)
    lcsubstr(s1, s2)
    pmatchPattern(pattern, subject, maxlength.out=1L)

### Arguments

`s1` | 1st string, a character string or an XString object.
`s2` | 2nd string, a character string or an XString object.
`pattern` | The pattern string.
`subject` | An XString object containing the subject string.
`maxlength.out` | The maximum length of the output i.e. the maximum number of views in the returned object.

### See Also

matchPattern, XStringViews-class, XString-class

[Package Biostrings version 2.56.0 Index]