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# Author: Brian Tiffin
# Dedicated to the public domain
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# Date: October 2016
# Modified: 2016-10-09/17:34-0400
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# match.icn, demonstrate string scanning match
#
procedure main()
    s := "this is a test"
    # match will return the index after the matched string
    s ? this := match("this")
    write(this)

    # no match, variable that remains null, no write
    s ? that := match("that")
    write(\that)

    # match is built into the unary equal operator as tab(match(s))
    s ? data := ="this"
    write(":", data, ":")
    # equivalent to
    s ? data := tab(match("this"))
    write(":", data, ":")
end