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string transformation languages
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control returning functions and expressions
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failure returning functions and expressions
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conditional statement
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goto statement
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pattern brackets
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pattern specification
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evaluate operator
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pattern components
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access by pattern matching

Reference

Farber, D.J., Griswold, R.E., Polinsky, I.P., "SNOBOL, a string manipulation language", Journal of the ACM, 11, 2, pp. 21-30, January 1964. Google

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QuoteRef: farbDJ1_1964 ;;23 replace by search string expression = string (if true the pattern match is replaced by the string)
QuoteRef: farbDJ1_1964 ;;24 all scans left to right so use pattern variables as pattern literals in the same search
QuoteRef: farbDJ1_1964 ;;25 pattern match for paired ()
QuoteRef: farbDJ1_1964 ;;25 uses *variable-pattern/fixed-length-optional*
QuoteRef: farbDJ1_1964 ;;25 string search expression is a way of specifying a sub-field of a string
QuoteRef: farbDJ1_1964 ;;26 gotos by /(label) f(label) s(label) for always, failure, success
QuoteRef: farbDJ1_1964 ;;27 indirect variable is as if wrote the contents of a variable

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