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13.15 EXTERNAL TEXT MANIPULATION

CLIPS provides a set of functions to build and access a hierarchical lookup system for multiple external files. Each file contains a set of text entries in a special format that CLIPS can later reference and display. The basic concept is that CLIPS retains a ìmapî of the text file in memory and can easily pull sections of text from the file without having to store the whole file in memory and without having to sequentially search the file for the appropriate text.

13.15.1 External Text File Format

13.15.2 External Text Manipulation Functions



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