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Re:Bistring – Bidirectionally Transformed Strings by blt on Saturday July 13, 2019 @01:28PM (#20429108)
This is interesting, but the readme doesn't say much about use cases. What is a big application that could benefit from this?
Re:Bistring – Bidirectionally Transformed Strings by microcolonel on Saturday July 13, 2019 @01:56PM (#20429281)
Normalizing strings for comparison, but storing the original source version of the substring that matched or was extracted from the normalized version, useful for search boxes and such. Not sure what their specific use case is, but it's something I've implemented before, so I know it has use cases.