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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def match_string(self, tokens, item):
 """Match prefix string."""

        prefix, name = tokens
        return self.match_mstring((prefix, name, None), item, use_bytes=prefix.startswith("b"))