Procedures and functions
In general, the procedures and functions of mmsystem do not fail but set a status variable that can be read with getsysstat. To make sure the operation has been performed correctly, check the value of this variable after each system call.
| addmonths |
Add a number of months to a date or datetime.
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| copytext |
Copy a part of a text or string.
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| cuttext |
Cut a part of a text returning a copy of the deleted string.
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| deltext |
Delete a part of a text.
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| endswith |
Check whether a text or string ends with a given string.
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| expandpath |
Expand a path or file name.
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| fcopy |
Copy a file.
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| fdelete |
Delete a file.
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| findfiles |
Search for files according to file name patterns.
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| findtext |
Search for a string in a text or string.
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| fmove |
Rename or move a file.
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| formattext |
Create a text from a format string and its parameters.
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| getasnumber |
Convert a date, time or datetime into a number.
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| getchar |
Get a character in a string or text.
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| getcwd |
Get the current working directory.
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| getdate |
Get the date part of a datetime.
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| getday |
Get the day number in the month of a date or datetime.
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| getdaynum |
Get the day number in the year of a date or datetime.
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| getdays |
Get the number of days of a month.
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| getdirsep |
Get the directory separator of the running operating system.
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| getendparse, setendparse |
Get and set endparse property of a parser context.
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| getenv |
Get the value of an environment variable.
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| getfsize |
Get the size of a file.
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| getfstat |
Get the status of a file or directory.
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| getftime |
Get time information of a file.
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| gethour |
Get the hour part of a time or datetime.
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| getminute |
Get the minute part of a time or datetime.
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| getmonth |
Get the month number of a date or datetime.
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| getmsec |
Get the millisecond part of a time or datetime.
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| getpathsep |
Get the path separator of the running operating system.
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| getqtype, setqtype |
Get and set qtype property of a parser context.
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| getsecond |
Get the second part of a time or datetime.
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| getsepchar, setsepchar |
Get and set sepchar property of a parser context.
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| getsize |
Get the size of a text.
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| getstart, setstart |
Get and set start property of a text area.
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| getsucc, setsucc |
Get and set succ (position of successor character) property of a text area.
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| getsysinfo |
Get information about the running operating system.
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| getsysstat |
Get the system status.
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| gettime |
Get a time measure or the time part of a datetime.
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| gettmpdir |
Get the temporary directory as a text object.
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| gettrim, settrim |
Get and set trim property of a parser context.
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| getweekday |
Compute the day of the week for a date or datetime.
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| getyear |
Get the year part of a date or datetime.
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| inserttext |
Paste a text or string into a text.
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| isvalid |
Check whether a date, time or datetime is valid.
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| makedir |
Create a new directory in the given file system.
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| makepath |
Create a new directory including its parents if necessary.
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| newtar |
Create a Unix tar archive from a list of files.
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| newzip |
Create a Zip archive from a list of files.
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| nextfield |
Advance to next field in a structured text string.
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| openpipe |
Start an external process for bidirectional communication.
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| parseextn |
Initialise an object of a module type from a text.
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| parseint |
Convert a text into an integer.
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| parsereal |
Convert a text into a real.
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| parsetext |
Extract a text from a text.
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| pastetext |
Paste a text or string into a text.
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| pathmatch |
Check whether a file name matches a given pattern.
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| pathsplit |
Split a path into its components.
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| qsort |
Sort a list or an array or (a subset of) the indices of an array.
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| quote |
Quote and encode a text string.
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| readtextline |
Read a line of text from the current input stream.
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| regmatch |
Compare text strings using a regular expression.
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| regreplace |
Replace portions of a text string based on a regular expression.
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| removedir |
Remove a directory.
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| removefiles |
Remove files selected using file name patterns.
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| setchar |
Set a character in a text.
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| setdate |
Set the date part of a datetime.
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| setday |
Set the day number of a date or datetime.
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| setenv |
Set the value of an environment variable.
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| sethour |
Set the hour part of a time or datetime.
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| setminute |
Set the minute part of a time or datetime.
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| setmonth |
Set the month number of a date or datetime.
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| setmsec |
Set the millisecond part of a time or datetime.
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| setsecond |
Set the second part of a time or datetime.
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| settime |
Set the time part of a datetime.
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| setyear |
Set the year part of a date or datetime.
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| sleep |
Suspend execution for a fixed amount of time.
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| startswith |
Check whether a text or string starts with a given string.
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| system |
Execute an external program.
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| tarlist |
Get the list of files included in a Unix tar archive.
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| textfmt |
Create a formatted text from a string, a text or a number.
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| tolower |
Generate the lowercase version of the provided text.
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| toupper |
Generate the uppercase version of the provided text.
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| trim |
Remove blank characters at the beginning and/or end of a text string.
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| untar |
Extract files from a Unix tar archive.
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| unzip |
Extract files from a Zip archive.
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| ziplist |
Get the list of files included in a Zip archive.
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