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Scilab keywords

  • ans — answer
  • backslash — left matrix division.
  • brackets — ([,]) left and right brackets
  • case — keyword used in select
  • colon — (:) colon operator
  • comma — (,) column, instruction, argument separator
  • comments — comments
  • comparison — comparison, relational operators
  • do — language keyword for loops
  • dot — (.) symbol
  • else — keyword in if-then-else
  • elseif — keyword in if-then-else
  • empty — ([]) empty matrix
  • end — end keyword
  • equal — (=) assignment , comparison, equal sign
  • for — language keyword for loops
  • global — Define global variable
  • hat — (^) exponentiation
  • if — conditional execution
  • left — ([) left bracket
  • less — (<) greater than comparison
  • minus — (-) substraction operator, sign changes
  • not — (~) logical not
  • parents — ( ) left and right parenthesis
  • percent — (%) special character
  • plus — (+) addition operator
  • power — power operation (^,.^)
  • quote — (') transpose operator, string delimiter
  • return — return or resume execution and copy some local variables
  • select — select keyword
  • semicolon — ending expression and row separator
  • slash — (/) right division and feed back
  • star — (*) multiplication operator
  • then — keyword in if-then-else
  • tilda — (~) logical not
  • try — beginning of catch block in try-catch control instruction
  • while — while keyword
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