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Names

Status: Stable

documented, exercised by the test suite and/or worked examples, with no known limitations recorded.

Description

Names["string"] gives a sorted list of the names of symbols matching the string. Names[patt] matches a string pattern with metacharacters * (zero or more characters) and @ (one or more non-uppercase characters), or a RegularExpression["re"]. Names[{p1, p2, ...}] matches any of the patterns. Names[] lists all symbol names.

Examples

All examples below are verified against the current Mathilda build.

In[1]:= Names["List*"]
Out[1]= {"List", "ListConvolve", "ListCorrelate", "ListPlot", "ListQ"}

In[2]:= Names["Ar@"]
Out[2]= {"Arg", "Array", "Arrow"}

In[3]:= Names[RegularExpression["Si."]]
Out[3]= {"Sin"}

In[4]:= MemberQ[Names["System`*"], "System`Sin"]
Out[4]= True

Implementation notes

Attributes: Protected.

Implementation status

Stable — documented, exercised by the test suite and/or worked examples, with no known limitations recorded.

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