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NameQ

Usage

• NameQ["string"] yields True if there are any symbols whose names match the string pattern given, and yields False otherwise.


Notes

• You can test for classes of symbol names using abbreviated string patterns with metacharacters such as *, as specified in Section A.3.13.
• See Section 2.7.12.
• See also: Names.
• New in Version 1.
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