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   Sidney Reilley to dxf   
   Re: Searching the Forth Dictionary   
   31 Dec 24 18:52:56   
   
   From: sidney.reilley.ii@gmail.com   
      
   On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 12:31:46 +1100   
   dxf  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'  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    
      
   Many thanks! I installed pforth by cloning its from githup repo. No   
   docs in there. Where did you find the docs please? TIA ..   
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