$Abbrev: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 22:51, 20 September 2018

Determine if string is abbreviation within list of words

Note: Many $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. There is currently no direct OO equivalent for $Abbrev. However, the IsStartOf function can be used to determine whether one string is an initial substring (abbreviation) of another.

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

Syntax

%result = $Abbrev(word_list, string)

Syntax terms

%result	A numeric value that indicates the relative position in `word_list` of the first word for which `string` is a valid abbreviation.
word_list	A list of blank-delimited words.
string	The word to be compared with the `word_list` argument.

Return codes

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

Examples

In the following example, %NUM is set to 2:
%NUM = $Abbrev('TOP BOTTOM MIDDLE MUDDLE', 'B')
In the following example, %NUM is set to 3:
%NUM = $Abbrev('TOP BOTTOM MIDDLE MUDDLE', 'M')
In the following example, %NUM is set to 4:
%NUM = $Abbrev('TOP BOTTOM MIDDLE MUDDLE', 'MU')
In the following example, %NUM is set to 1:
%NUM = $Abbrev('TOP BOTTOM MIDDLE MUDDLE', 'TOP')
In the following example, %NUM is set to 0:
%NUM = $Abbrev('TOP BOTTOM MIDDLE MUDDLE', 'MAD')

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 {{DISPLAYTITLE:$Abbrev}}
 <span class="pageSubtitle">Determine if string is abbreviation within list of words</span>
-<p class="warning">Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. There is currently no direct OO equivalent for the $Abbrev function.</p>
+<p class="warn"><b>Note:</b> <i>Many $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. There is currently no direct OO equivalent for <var>$Abbrev</var>.  However, the <var>[[IsStartOf (String function)|IsStartOf]]</var> function can be used to determine whether one string is an initial substring (abbreviation) of another.</i></p>
 This function makes it possible to determine if a string is a valid abbreviation of one of a list of words.
-$Abbrev accepts two arguments and returns a numeric code.
+==Syntax==
+<p class="syntax"><span class="term">%result</span> = <span class="literal">$Abbrev</span>(<span class="term">word_list</span>, <span class="term">string</span>)
+</p>
-The first argument is a list of blank-delimited words.
+===Syntax terms===
+<table>
+<tr><th>%result</th>
+<td>A numeric value that indicates the relative position in <var class="term">word_list</var> of the first word for which <var class="term">string</var> is a valid abbreviation.</td></tr>
-The second argument is the word to be compared with the blank-delimited word list in the first argument.
+<tr><th>word_list</th>
-==Syntax==
+<td>A list of blank-delimited words. </td></tr>
-<p class="syntax"><section begin="syntax" /> %RESULT = $Abbrev(word_list, string)
-<section end="syntax" /></p>
-<p class="caption">$Abbrev Function
-</p>
-<p class="caption">%RESULT indicates the relative position in word_list of the first word for which string is a valid abbreviation.</p>
-<p class="code">
- >0 - Number of matching word
-- No matches found
- -1 - First parameter missing or null
- -2 - Second parameter missing or null
-</p>
-<p class="caption">$Abbrev return codes
-</p>
+<tr><th>string</th>
+<td>The word to be compared with the <var class="term">word_list</var> argument. </td></tr>
+</table>
-In the following example
+===Return codes===
-<p class="code"> %NUM = $Abbrev('TOP BOTTOM MIDDLE MUDDLE', 'B')
+<p class="code">>0 - Number of matching word
+- No matches found
+-2 - First parameter missing or null
+-1 - Second parameter missing or null
 </p>
-%NUM is set to 2.
-In the following example
+==Examples==
-<p class="code"> %NUM = $Abbrev('TOP BOTTOM MIDDLE MUDDLE', 'M')
+<ol>
+<li>In the following example, %NUM is set to 2:
+<p class="code">%NUM = $Abbrev('TOP BOTTOM MIDDLE MUDDLE', 'B')
 </p>
-%NUM is set to 3.
-In the following example
+<li>In the following example, %NUM is set to 3:
-<p class="code"> %NUM = $Abbrev('TOP BOTTOM MIDDLE MUDDLE', 'MU')
+<p class="code">%NUM = $Abbrev('TOP BOTTOM MIDDLE MUDDLE', 'M')
 </p>
-%NUM is set to 4.
-In the following example
+<li>In the following example, %NUM is set to 4:
-<p class="code"> %NUM = $Abbrev('TOP BOTTOM MIDDLE MUDDLE', 'TOP')
+<p class="code">%NUM = $Abbrev('TOP BOTTOM MIDDLE MUDDLE', 'MU')
 </p>
-%NUM is set to 1.
-In the following example
+<li>In the following example, %NUM is set to 1:
-<p class="code"> %NUM = $Abbrev('TOP BOTTOM MIDDLE MUDDLE', 'MAD')
+<p class="code">%NUM = $Abbrev('TOP BOTTOM MIDDLE MUDDLE', 'TOP')
 </p>
-%NUM is set to 0.
-<ul class="smallAndTightList">
+<li>In the following example, %NUM is set to 0:
-<li>[[Sirius functions]]</li>
+<p class="code">%NUM = $Abbrev('TOP BOTTOM MIDDLE MUDDLE', 'MAD')</p>
+</ol>
+==Products authorizing {{PAGENAMEE}}==
+ <ul class="smallAndTightList">
+<li>[[List of $functions|Sirius functions]]</li>
 <li>[[Fast/Unload User Language Interface]]</li>
-<li>[[Janus Open Client]]</li>
+<li>[[Media:JoclrNew.pdf|Janus Open Client]]</li>
-<li>[[Janus Open Server]]</li>
+<li>[[Media:JosrvrNew.pdf|Janus Open Server]]</li>
 <li>[[Janus Sockets]]</li>
 <li>[[Janus Web Server]]</li>
-<li>[[Japanese functions]]</li>
+<li>Japanese functions</li>
-<li>[[Sir2000 Field Migration Facility]]</li>
+<li>[[Media:SirfieldNew.pdf|Sir2000 Field Migration Facility]]</li>
 </ul>
-<p class="caption">Products authorizing $Abbrev
-</p>
 [[Category:$Functions|$Abbrev]]