- Documentation
- Reference manual
- Built-in Predicates
- Notation of Predicate Descriptions
- Character representation
- Loading Prolog source files
- Editor Interface
- Verify Type of a Term
- Comparison and Unification of Terms
- Control Predicates
- Meta-Call Predicates
- Delimited continuations
- Exception handling
- Printing messages
- Handling signals
- DCG Grammar rules
- Database
- Declaring predicate properties
- Examining the program
- Input and output
- Status of streams
- Primitive character I/O
- Term reading and writing
- Analysing and Constructing Terms
- Analysing and Constructing Atoms
- Localization (locale) support
- Character properties
- Operators
- Character Conversion
- Arithmetic
- Misc arithmetic support predicates
- Built-in list operations
- Finding all Solutions to a Goal
- Forall
- Formatted Write
- Global variables
- Terminal Control
- Operating System Interaction
- File System Interaction
- User Top-level Manipulation
- Creating a Protocol of the User Interaction
- Debugging and Tracing Programs
- Obtaining Runtime Statistics
- Execution profiling
- Memory Management
- Windows DDE interface
- Miscellaneous
- Built-in Predicates
- Packages
- Reference manual
4.44 Miscellaneous
- dwim_match(+Atom1, +Atom2)
- True if Atom1 matches Atom2 in the‘Do What I
Mean' sense. Both Atom1 and Atom2 may also be
integers or floats. The two atoms match if:
- They are identical
- They differ by one character (spy == spu)
- One character is inserted/deleted (debug == deug)
- Two characters are transposed (trace == tarce)
- ‘Sub-words' are glued differently (existsfile == existsFile == exists_file)
- Two adjacent sub-words are transposed (existsFile == fileExists)
- dwim_match(+Atom1, +Atom2, -Difference)
- Equivalent to dwim_match/2,
but unifies Difference with an atom identifying the
difference between Atom1 and Atom2. The return
values are (in the same order as above):
equal,mismatched_char,inserted_char,transposed_char,separatedandtransposed_word. - wildcard_match(+Pattern, +String)
- wildcard_match(+Pattern, +String, +Options)
- True if String matches the wildcard pattern Pattern.
Pattern is very similar to the Unix
cshpattern matcher. The patterns are given below:?Matches one arbitrary character. *Matches any number of arbitrary characters. [ ... ]Matches one of the characters specified between the brackets. <char1>-<char2>indicates a range.{...}Matches any of the patterns of the comma-separated list between the braces. Example:
?- wildcard_match('[a-z]*.{pro,pl}[%~]', 'a_hello.pl%'). true.The wildcard_match/3 version processes the following option:
- case_sensitive(+Boolean)
- When
false(defaulttrue), match case insensitively.
- sleep(+Time)
- Suspend execution Time seconds. Time is either a
floating point number or an integer. Granularity is dependent on the
system's timer granularity. A negative time causes the timer to return
immediately. On most non-realtime operating systems we can only ensure
execution is suspended for at least Time seconds.
On Unix systems the sleep/1 predicate is realised ---in order of preference--- by nanosleep(), usleep(), select() if the time is below 1 minute, or sleep(). On Windows systems Sleep() is used.