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-rw-r--r-- | lexlib/WordList.cxx | 5 |
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diff --git a/lexlib/WordList.cxx b/lexlib/WordList.cxx index b50c69498..cda35ece7 100644 --- a/lexlib/WordList.cxx +++ b/lexlib/WordList.cxx @@ -110,6 +110,11 @@ void WordList::Set(const char *s) { } } +/** Check whether a string is in the list. + * List elements are either exact matches or prefixes. + * Prefix elements start with '^' and match all strings that start with the rest of the element + * so '^GTK_' matches 'GTK_X', 'GTK_MAJOR_VERSION', and 'GTK_'. + */ bool WordList::InList(const char *s) const { if (0 == words) return false; |