balance

 

 

Overview

The balance function locates the sub-string (if any) of the source string {sourceString}, starting at the specified displacement {startPos}, that is enclosed by parentheses. If the specified source start location is not enclosed by parentheses, the balance function returns the Boolean value false.

Usage

Since the Lisp language is heavily (like all Lisp dialects) involved with matching open and close parentheses, this function can be used often during automated Script editing.

 

Syntax

Expression:

(balance sourceString startPos)


Arguments Name Type Description
Argument:sourceStringString Source String that contains a Lisp expression
Argument:startPosInteger An integer value that represents the starting position to determine if the expression is balanced.

Returns:

If the specified source string starting at the specified position, is balanced, then the return value is the substring containing the balanced expression. If the string is not balanced, then the Boolean value false is returned.

 

Examples

Here are a number of links to Lambda coding examples which contain this instruction in various use cases.

 

Argument Types

Here are the links to the data types of the function arguments.

Lambda String Integer

Here are also a number of links to functions having arguments with any of these data types.

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