Macro: abbrev - check if a string is an abbreviation for another string Synopsis: status abbrev(string complete, string abbreviation, int minlen) Description: Find out if a string is the abbreviation of another. Returns true when 'abbreviation' is indeed an abbreviation of string 'complete' and has at least length 'minlen' chars. This call is compatible to REXX abbrev(), it is implemented as macro using extract(). Return value: returns 1 if abbreviation is an abbreviation of complete returns 0 if not Examples: abbrev("look", "loo", 1) -> return true abbrev("smilingly", "sigh", 1) -> returns false Note: Should be done via str[0..minlen] ;-) See 'man extract'! This is not a simulated efun but a MACRO defined in /include/auto.h . See also: efun/extract