dict(7) [plan9 man page]
DICT(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual DICT(7) NAME
dict - dictionary browser SYNOPSIS
dict [ -k ] [ -d dictname ] [ -c command ] [ pattern ] DESCRIPTION
Dict is a dictionary browser. If a pattern is given on the command line, dict prints all matching entries; otherwise it repeatedly accepts and executes commands. The options are -d dictname Use the given dictionary. The default is oed, the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. A list of available dictionar- ies is printed by option -d?. -c command Execute one command and quit. The command syntax is described below. -k Print a pronunciation key. Patterns are regular expressions (see regexp(6)), with an implicit leading and trailing Patterns are matched against an index of headwords and variants, to form a `match set'. By default, both patterns and the index are folded: upper case characters are mapped into their lower case equivalents, and Latin accented characters are mapped into their non-accented equivalents. In interactive mode, there is always a `current match set' and a `current entry' within the match set. Commands can change either or both, as well as print the entries or infor- mation about them. Commands have an address followed by a command letter. Addresses have the form: /re/ Set the match set to all entries matching the regular expression re, sorted in dictionary order. Set the current entry to the first of the match set. !re! Like /re/ but use exact matching, i.e., without case and accent folding. n An integer n means change the current entry to the nth of the current match set. #n The integer n is an absolute byte offset into the raw dictionary. (See the A command, below.) addr+ After setting the match set and current entry according to addr, change the match set and current entry to be the next entry in the dictionary (not necessarily in the match set) after the current entry. addr- Like addr+ but go to previous dictionary entry. The command letters come in pairs: a lower case and the corresponding upper case letter. The lower case version prints something about the current entry only, and advances the current entry to the next in the match set (wrapping around to the beginning after the last). The upper case version prints something about all of the match set and resets the current entry to the beginning of the set. p,P Print the whole entry. h,H Print only the headword(s) of the entry. a,A Print the dictionary byte offset of the entry. r,R Print the whole entry in raw format (without translating special characters, etc.). If no command letter is given for the first command, H is assumed. After an H, the default command is p. Otherwise, the default command is the previous command. FILES
/lib/oed/oed2 /lib/oed/oed2index Other files in /lib. SEE ALSO
regexp(6) SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/dict BUGS
A font with wide coverage of the Unicode Standard should be used for best results. (Try /lib/font/bit/pelm/unicode.9.font.) If the pattern doesn't begin with a few literal characters, matching takes a long time. The dictionaries are not distributed outside Bell Labs. DICT(7)
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lsearch(n) Tcl Built-In Commands lsearch(n) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ NAME
lsearch - See if a list contains a particular element SYNOPSIS
lsearch ?options? list pattern _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
This command searches the elements of list to see if one of them matches pattern. If so, the command returns the index of the first match- ing element (unless the options -all or -inline are specified.) If not, the command returns -1. The option arguments indicates how the | elements of the list are to be matched against pattern and it must have one of the following values: -all Changes the result to be the list of all matching indices (or all matching values if -inline is specified as well.) | -ascii The list elements are to be examined as Unicode strings (the name is for backward-compatability reasons.) This option is only mean- ingful when used with -exact or -sorted. -decreasing The list elements are sorted in decreasing order. This option is only meaningful when used with -sorted. -dictionary The list elements are to be compared using dictionary-style comparisons. This option is only meaningful when used with -exact or -sorted. -exact The list element must contain exactly the same string as pattern. -glob Pattern is a glob-style pattern which is matched against each list element using the same rules as the string match command. -increasing The list elements are sorted in increasing order. This option is only meaningful when used with -sorted. -inline The matching value is returned instead of its index (or an empty string if no value matches.) If -all is also specified, then the | result of the command is the list of all values that matched. -integer The list elements are to be compared as integers. This option is only meaningful when used with -exact or -sorted. -not This negates the sense of the match, returning the index of the first non-matching value in the list. | -real The list elements are to be compared as floating-point values. This option is only meaningful when used with -exact or -sorted. -regexp Pattern is treated as a regular expression and matched against each list element using the rules described in the re_syntax refer- ence page. -sorted The list elements are in sorted order. If this option is specified, lsearch will use a more efficient searching algorithm to search list. If no other options are specified, list is assumed to be sorted in increasing order, and to contain ASCII strings. This option is mutually exclusive with -glob and -regexp, and is treated exactly like -exact when either -all, or -not is specified. -start index The list is searched starting at position index. If index has the value end, it refers to the last element in the list, and | end-integer refers to the last element in the list minus the specified integer offset. If option is omitted then it defaults to -glob. If more than one of -exact, -glob, -regexp, and -sorted is specified, whichever option is specified last takes precedence. If more than one of -ascii, -dictionary, -integer and -real is specified, the option specified last takes precedence. If more than one of -increasing and -decreasing is specified, the option specified last takes precedence. EXAMPLES
| lsearch {a b c d e} c => 2 | lsearch -all {a b c a b c} c => 2 5 | lsearch -inline {a20 b35 c47} b* => b35 | lsearch -inline -not {a20 b35 c47} b* => a20 | lsearch -all -inline -not {a20 b35 c47} b* => a20 c47 | lsearch -all -not {a20 b35 c47} b* => 0 2 | lsearch -start 3 {a b c a b c} c => 5 | SEE ALSO
foreach(n), list(n), lappend(n), lindex(n), linsert(n), llength(n), lset(n), lsort(n), lrange(n), lreplace(n) | KEYWORDS
list, match, pattern, regular expression, search, string Tcl 8.4 lsearch(n)