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is a name a literal string or a symbol
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pattern specification
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references g-h
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pattern components
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continuation lines
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data type as constructors, selectors, and predicates

Reference

Griswold, R.E., The Macro Implementation of SNOBOL4, San Francisco, California, W.H. Freeman, 1972. Google

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QuoteRef: grisRE_1972 ;;11 statement continuation by a "+" as first character in line
18 ;;Quote: define data types by object creation function and field selectors
QuoteRef: grisRE_1972 ;;25 alternate patterns by '|' eg type= 'net'|'gross' can be concatenated
QuoteRef: grisRE_1972 ;;27 setting &Anchor can force pattern matching at a particular location
QuoteRef: grisRE_1972 ;;30 on match, matched pattern to word eg text arb.word (arb any chars)
QuoteRef: grisRE_1972 ;;31 within a pattern $word is replaced with each partial match
QuoteRef: grisRE_1972 ;;31 @var matches null string, returns position within the string
QuoteRef: grisRE_1972 ;;32 FENCE null pattern once tried can not be tried again. eg 'function' fence 'function'
QuoteRef: grisRE_1972 ;;33 generated patterns Any (s) and one character in s, notany (s) any one character not in s,span (s) any combination of characters of s,break (s) any combination of character not in s
QuoteRef: grisRE_1972 ;;34 when specifying a variable can use *variable to indicate don't evaluate until execute pattern search


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