pmatchPattern           package: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@fhcrc.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

