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!match CONNECTION word #!key (strategy 'default) (db 'first)procedure

Performs a match-operation on the dict-server for the given word. The strategy to use can be specified by the key-word-argument strategy. It defaults to the symbol 'default which means: "Use the default-strategy". The default-strategy is server-dependent. Legal values for the strategy are:

  • a string => the name of a strategy (see !strategies)
  • the symbol 'default => this means use the default strategy

The db key-word-argument specifies the database to search. Legal values for db are:

  • a string => the name of a database (see !databases)
  • the symbol 'first => this means search all databases and stop after the first match
  • the symbol 'all => this means search all databases and return all matches

This procedure returns an alist mapping databases to matches.