michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
As a comparative beginner, I still find myself stumbling across RTL
functions that I've previously hand-coded.
Is there an easy way of generating a complete permuted index from the
one-line descriptions of the functions in the RTL (and optionally FCL
and LCL)?
Shortly said: no.
For example, can I rapidly get all function descriptions with "space"
as part of the description, which could subsequently be filtered (e.g.
if I were interested in text operations I could quickly ignore
anything with "file" in the description)?
Copy2Space Returns first space character
Copy2SpaceDel Deletes first space character
DelSpace Delete a space from
DelSpace1 Reduces of space characters
DelSpace1 Reduces 1 space character
IntToBin Converts inserting spaces at
IsEmptyStr Check disregaring whitespace characters
That's somewhat abbreviated so that it's not screwed too badly by wrap.
Creating such an index requires additional keywords, which are simply not
present now.
Even looked at superficially gives useful partial results:
fpcdocs$ grep -r -B 1 '<short>' *
I'm sure that somebody familiar with XML (which I'm afraid doesn't
include me) could knock out something half-way decent in a few minutes.
Or is the problem actually XML in this case, i.e. it's obvious that we
want to extract the short description but that leaves an uncertain context?
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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