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&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
 
scan string
 
Description

s ? expr : x
s ? expr saves the current subject, &subject, and position, &pos and then sets them to the values of s and 1, respectively. It then evaluates expr.

The outcome is the outcome of expr.

&subject and &pos are restored on exit from expr to their saved values.
 
Parameters
s
subject string
expr
pattern matching expression
returns
result of evaluating expr
 
Errors
103 s is not a string
 
See Also
  • ?x — generate random value