“Robert” and “Bob” refer to the same first name but are textually far apart. Traditional string similarity functions do not allow a flexible way to account for such synonyms, abbreviations and aliases ...

Millions of computer end users need to perform tasks over large spreadsheet data, yet lack the programming knowledge to do such tasks automatically. We present a programming by example methodology ...

Working with numbers stored as strings is a common task in Python programming. Whether you’re parsing user input, reading data from a file, or working with APIs, you’ll often need to transform numeric ...

President Trump fired the head of the BLS, claiming manipulated jobs numbers after a report of slowed hiring. While revisions were more dramatic than usual, these numbers are always revised. WSJ ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java String printf method can be confusing at first, but it greatly simplifies how you ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Good programmers need to create code that efficiently solves problems, using various methods. A ...

Many dismiss warehousing simply as storage. But they couldn’t be more wrong: a warehouse is a dynamic hub of activity that is the foundation of the entire ecommerce order fulfillment process. From ...

Abstract: Regex-dependent string functions are string functions that take regular expressions (regexes) as parameters and are popular means of manipulating strings. They are frequently used for, e.g., ...

To promote faster development of quantum algorithms and applications, IBM has just launched the Qiskit Functions Catalog. This new platform allows developers from IBM and other organizations to ...