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java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: begin 1, end 0, length 0 at java.base/java.lang.String.checkBoundsBeginEnd(String.java:4606) at java.base/java.lang.String ...

Abstract: Motivated by the problem of deducing the structure of proteins using mass-spectrometry, we study the reconstruction of a string from the multiset of its substring compositions. We specialize ...

Abstract: The edit distance between given two strings X and Y is the minimum number of edit operations that transform X into Y. Ordinarily, string editing is based on character insert, delete, and ...

Thanks for the reply! I thought about that approach, but am on the fence about it (it just doesn't seem like a clean way to go, for whatever reason). My feeling is that there must be code in the JDK ...