Search ('all' for everything):
Search results:
&allocated — cumulative allocation
&ascii — ASCII characters
&clock — time of day
&collections — garbage collections
&cset — all characters
&current — current co-expression
&date — date
&dateline — date and time of day
&digits — digits
&dump — set termination dump
&e — base of natural logarithms
&error — set error conversion
&errornumber — number of last error
&errortext — description of last error
&errorvalue — value causing last error
&errout — standard error output
&fail — failure
&features — implementation features
&file — source file
&host — host system
&input — standard input
&lcase — lowercase letters
&letters — letters
&level — procedure level
&main — main co-expression
&null — null value
&output — standard output
&phi — golden ratio
&pi — pi
&pos — scanning position
&progname — program name
&random : i — random seed
&regions — storage regions
&source — source co-expression
&storage — storage utilization
&subject — subject of scanning
&time — elapsed time
&ucase — uppercase letters
&version — Icon version

Index of Function Types:
affects &pos
character sets
co-expressions
control structures
file processing
generators
infix operations
keywords
lists, sets and tables
math
metadata
output formatting
pattern matching
prefix operations
records
strings
windows and keyboards

Index of Subsystems:
base
digitcnt.icn
SNOBOL4 functions
 
match initial string
 
Description

i3 match(s1, s2, i1, i2)
match(s1, s2, i1, i2) produces the position beyond the initial substring of s2[i1:i2], if any, that is equal to s1; otherwise it fails.
 
Parameters
s1
search string.
s2
subject string.
i1
start position in s.
i2
end position in s.
returns
tab position of first found character.
 
Defaults
s2
&subject
i1
&pos if s2 is defaulted, otherwise 1
i2
0
 
Errors
101 i1 or i2 not integer
103 s1, or s2 not string
 
See Also
  • any — locate initial character
  • find — find string
  • many — move scanning position