Revision as of 17:45, 27 February 2013

⎕A - Return Uppercase Alphabet

Z←⎕A

returns the 26-character uppercase English alphabet.

Z is the character vector 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'.

Note that ⎕A is a niladic system function, you cannot assign anything to it.

System Variables (A value may be assigned to these except for ⎕DM)
⎕ALX	⎕CT	⎕DM	⎕DT	⎕ELX	⎕FC	⎕FEATURE	⎕FPC	⎕IC	⎕IO
⎕LR	⎕LX	⎕PP	⎕PR	⎕PW	⎕RL	⎕SA	⎕WSID
Niladic System Functions (a value cannot be assigned to these)
⎕A	⎕AV	⎕EM	⎕ET	⎕LC	⎕NNAMES	⎕NNUMS	⎕SI	⎕SYSID	⎕SYSVER
⎕T	⎕TC	⎕TCBEL	⎕TCBS	⎕TCESC	⎕TCFF	⎕TCHT	⎕TCLF	⎕TCNL	⎕TCNUL
⎕TS	⎕WA
Monadic or dyadic system functions (a value cannot be assigned to these)
⎕AT	⎕CR	⎕DC	⎕DFT	⎕DL	⎕DR	⎕EA	⎕EC	⎕ERROR	⎕ES
⎕EX	⎕FMT	⎕FX	⎕MF	⎕NAPPEND	⎕NC	⎕NCREATE	⎕NERASE	⎕NINFO	⎕NL
⎕NLOCK	⎕NREAD	⎕NRENAME	⎕NREPLACE	⎕NRESIZE	⎕NSIZE	⎕NTIE	⎕NUNTIE	⎕STOP	⎕TF
⎕TRACE	⎕UCS	⎕VR
Note that quad functions and variables (except for the ⎕A family of functions) are case insensitive

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 {{BoxEnd|<apll>Z</apll> is the character vector <apll>'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'</apll>.}}
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-Note that <apll>⎕A</apll> is available in ''[[niladic]]'' form, and as a system function you cannot assign anything to it.
+Note that <apll>⎕A</apll> is a ''[[niladic]]'' system function, you cannot assign anything to it.
 {{System Variables}}