Re: Searching the Forth Dictionary

On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 12:31:46 +1100
dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> wrote:

On 1/01/2025 12:15 pm, Sidney Reilley wrote:

Eternal Forth noob here. Tired & retired but still at it.
I'm currently playing with pforth. I'm following along this
video: https://youtu.be/qZKXZifB39Y which is using swiftforth.
He uses the word `edit' <filename> to create a file.
 
Is it possible to search a Forth implementation's dictionary to
see if a particular words is built in - like `edit' in this
case? TIA ..

 
' EDIT  will report whether the word exists in the current search
order.
 
The Standard has WORDS which displays all words.  Many systems
augment that either by expanding WORDS to allow a pattern match,
or a separate word to do that.  According to the pforth docs it
has:
 
  WORDS.LIKE <name>

Many thanks! I installed pforth by cloning its from githup repo. No
docs in there. Where did you find the docs please? TIA ..
--
Duke
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