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<MAN>
  <LANGUAGE>eng</LANGUAGE>
  <TITLE>apropos</TITLE>
  <TYPE>Scilab Function</TYPE>
  <DATE>April 1993</DATE>
  <SHORT_DESCRIPTION name="apropos"> searches keywords in Scilab help</SHORT_DESCRIPTION>
  <CALLING_SEQUENCE>
    <CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>apropos(key)</CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>
    <CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>apropos(regexp)</CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>
  </CALLING_SEQUENCE>
  <PARAM>
    <PARAM_INDENT>
      <PARAM_ITEM>
        <PARAM_NAME>key</PARAM_NAME>
        <PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
          <SP>: character string. give the sequence of characters to be found</SP>
        </PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
      </PARAM_ITEM>
      <PARAM_ITEM>
        <PARAM_NAME>regexp</PARAM_NAME>
        <PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
          <SP>:  character string. give the regular expression to be found
	    (only with "Scilab Browser")</SP>
        </PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
      </PARAM_ITEM>
    </PARAM_INDENT>
  </PARAM>
  <DESCRIPTION>
    <P><VERB>apropos(key)</VERB> looks for Scilab help files containing
      keywords <VERB>key</VERB>in their short description section.</P>

    <P>With Scilab Browser only, <VERB>apropos(regexp)</VERB> looks for Scilab
      help files containing regular expression  <VERB>regexp</VERB>in their short
      description section.</P> 
  </DESCRIPTION>
  <EXAMPLE>
<![CDATA[
apropos('ode')
apropos ode 
apropos "list of"

//next only for Scilab Browser
global %browsehelp;%browsehelp_save=%browsehelp;%browsehelp="Scilab Browser";

apropos "sin.*hyperbolic"
apropos "^ab"  //search help beginning the two characters "ab"
apropos "quadratic.*solver"

%browsehelp=%browsehelp_save;
 ]]>
  </EXAMPLE>
  <SEE_ALSO>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>help</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>man</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>

  </SEE_ALSO>
</MAN>
