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A general purpose computer program and special purpose apparatus for matching strings of alphanumeric characters are disclosed. The algorithm involved makes use of a current-character search list (augmented for all alternative characters) and a nextcharacter search list (augmented for all successful character matches). These characters are portions of the test text to which the string to be matched is compared. Each character of the string to be matched is tested by the current character l...