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URL: http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao3.4/get_doc_string_from_file.tm.html
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AHELP for CIAO 3.4 get_doc_string_from_file Context: slangrtl

Synopsis

Read documentation from a file

Syntax

String_Type get_doc_string_from_file (String_Type f, String_Type t)

Description

get_doc_string_from_file opens the documentation file f and searches it for topic t. It returns the documentation for t upon success, otherwise it returns NULL upon error. It will fail if f could not be opened or does not contain documentation for the topic.

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