• n  a string that is part of a longer string

News & Articles

• Great Firewall of UK Blocks Game Patch Because of Substring Matches
  Sockatume writes "Remember the fun of spurious substring matches, AKA the Scunthorpe problem? The UK's advanced 'intelligent' internet filters do. Supposedly the country's great new filtering regime has been blocking a patch for League of Legends because some of the filenames within it include the substring 'sex.' Add one to the list of embarrassing failures for the nation's new mosaic of opt ...
  Jan. 22, 2014 - Slashdot

Quotes

• Dean Hamer in National Geographic
  This is one more line of evidence that there's a biological substring for sexual orientation,said Dean Hamer, a geneticist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.