Biostrings: Efficient manipulation of biological strings

pmatchPattern

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Longest Common Prefix/Suffix/Substring searching functions

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.

Thanks for your comprehension!

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

`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.