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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
• TMPDIR — temporary directory path
• abort — interrupt evaluation.
• add_demo — Add an entry in the demos list
• argn — Returns the number of input/output arguments in a function call
• banner — show scilab banner (Windows)
• boolean — Scilab Objects, boolean variables and operators & | ~
• break — keyword to interrupt loops
• clear — kills variables
• clearfun — remove primitive.
• clearglobal — kills global variables
• comp — scilab function compilation
• continue — keyword to pass control to the next iteration of a loop
• debug — debugging level
• delbpt — delete breakpoints
• dispbpt — display breakpoints
• edit — function editing
• errcatch — error trapping
• errclear — error clearing
• error — error messages
• error_table — table of error messages
• exists — checks variable existence
• exit — Ends the current Scilab session
• external — Scilab Object, external function or routine
• extraction — matrix and list entry extraction
• format — number printing and display format
• funcprot — switch scilab functions protection mode
• funptr — coding of primitives ( wizard stuff )
• getdebuginfo — get information about Scilab to debug
• getmd5 — get md5 checksum
• getmemory — returns free and total system memory
• getmodules — returns list of modules installed in Scilab
• getos — return Operating System name and version
• getscilabmode — returns scilab mode
• getshell — returns current command interpreter.
• getvariablesonstack — get variable names on stack of scilab
• getversion — get scilab and modules version information
• gstacksize — set/get scilab global stack size
• ieee — set floating point exception mode
• insertion — partial variable assignation
• intppty — set interface argument passing properties
• inv_coeff — build a polynomial matrix from its coefficients
• iserror — error occurence test
• isglobal — check if a variable is global
• lasterror — get last recorded error message
• macr2lst — function to list conversion
• macr2tree — function to tree conversion
• matrices — Scilab object, matrices in Scilab
• matrix — reshape a vector or a matrix to a different size matrix
• mode — select a mode in exec file
• mtlb_mode — switch Matlab like operations
• names — scilab names syntax
• newfun — add a name in the table of functions
• null — delete an element in a list
• pause — pause mode, invoke keyboard
• perl — Call Perl script using appropriate operating system executable
• poly — polynomial definition
• predef — variable protection
• quit — Terminates Scilab or decreases the pause level
• rational — Scilab objects, rational in Scilab
• readgateway — get primitives list of a module
• resume — return or resume execution and copy some local variables
• sciargs — scilab command line arguments
• scilab — Main script to start Scilab and miscellaneous tools (GNU/Linux, Unix and Mac OS X)
• setbpt — set breakpoints
• stacksize — set scilab stack size
• startup — startup file
• symbols — scilab operator names
• testmatrix — generate special matrices, such as Hilbert, Franck
• type — Returns the type of a variable
• typename — associates a name to variable type
• user — interfacing a Fortran or C routine
• varn — symbolic variable of a polynomial
• ver — Version information for Scilab
• warning — warning messages
• what — list the Scilab primitives
• where — get current instruction calling tree
• whereami — display current instruction calling tree
• who — listing of variables
• who_user — listing of user's variables
• whos — listing of variables in long form
• with_atlas — Checks if Scilab has been built with Atlas Library
• with_javasci — Checks if Scilab has been built with the java interface
• with_macros_source — Checks if macros source are installed
• with_module — Checks if a Scilab module is installed
• with_pvm — Checks if Scilab has been built with the "Parallel Virtual Machine" interface
• with_texmacs — Checks if Scilab has been called by texmacs
• with_tk — Checks if Scilab has been built with TCL/TK

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