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Revision as of 21:21, 7 November 2012


Determine if string is abbreviation within list of words

Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. There is currently no direct OO equivalent for the $Abbrev function.

This function makes it possible to determine if a string is a valid abbreviation of one of a list of words.

Syntax

<section begin="syntax" />%result = $Abbrev(word_list, string) <section end="syntax" />

%result is a numeric value that indicates the relative position in word_list of the first word for which string is a valid abbreviation.

The first argument is a list of blank-delimited words.

The second argument is the word to be compared with the blank-delimited word_list argument.

Return codes

>0 - Number of matching word 0 - No matches found -1 - First parameter missing or null -2 - Second parameter missing or null


Examples

  1. In the following example, %NUM is set to 2:

    %NUM = $Abbrev('TOP BOTTOM MIDDLE MUDDLE', 'B')

  2. In the following example, %NUM is set to 3:

    %NUM = $Abbrev('TOP BOTTOM MIDDLE MUDDLE', 'M')

  3. In the following example, %NUM is set to 4:

    %NUM = $Abbrev('TOP BOTTOM MIDDLE MUDDLE', 'MU')

  4. In the following example, %NUM is set to 1:

    %NUM = $Abbrev('TOP BOTTOM MIDDLE MUDDLE', 'TOP')

  5. In the following example, %NUM is set to 0:

    %NUM = $Abbrev('TOP BOTTOM MIDDLE MUDDLE', 'MAD')

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