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str

str

2 9.0
Text made of letters, numbers and symbols used in programming
  • noun
  • Specialized
: str
  • So if our string is, let's say, called STR, we'd say as long as I is less than STR's length.
  • str region
  • str repeats
  • str groups

And then Python used to just have a what type is a a colon STR?

Examples

  • The remaining members of the lineage are a cluster of strains with 13-15 STR repeats that were geographically restricted to the Vangakete health zone (savannah).

    Academic text (2014)
  • Considering that there is no coding element in this region, the most likely need to vary this region is structural; therefore, we predict that the STR region may be under selective pressure to provide stability to this region of the genome.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Lineage C showed high homogeneity with only 1 STR and represented 10 (6.7%) of the samples analyzed.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Samples collected during episodes of VARV activity in Bangladesh, South Africa, or the Far East showed limited variation (<3 left STR patterns); whereas, we observed 12 patterns for MPXV samples collected during a 2-year period in the DRC.

    Academic text (2014)
  • The function takes a str as input and returns the modified version of it.

  • You can concatenate two strs using the '+' operator in most programming languages.

  • To find a specific character in a str, you can use the index method.

Synonyms

string
vsstr
171 2.7

A sequence of numbers or letters in order

is a computing abbreviation used specifically for character data

Surface Forms

str singular
strs plural

Etymology

Str is a short form of string. Think of a string as a thread with beads, where each letter or symbol is like a bead, so a str in programming is a sequence of characters or 'text'.