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"ProgrammingLanguage" (Text Content Type)

See Also
- TextCases
- TextPosition
- TextSentences
- Containing
- Entity Types
- ProgrammingLanguage
- Interpreter Types
- ProgrammingLanguage
- ComputedProgrammingLanguage
- Text Contents
- NotableComputer
- FileFormat
- URL
Related Guides
- Text Content Types
- See Also
  - TextCases
  - TextPosition
  - TextSentences
  - Containing
  - Entity Types
  - ProgrammingLanguage
  - Interpreter Types
  - ProgrammingLanguage
  - ComputedProgrammingLanguage
  - Text Contents
  - NotableComputer
  - FileFormat
  - URL
- Related Guides
  - Text Content Types

"ProgrammingLanguage" (Text Content Type)

Text identified as the name of a programming language.

Details

"ProgrammingLanguage" can be used in TextCases, TextPosition and TextContents.
"ProgrammingLanguage" corresponds to any mention of a programming language (real or not real) in the context of the text.
Homonyms of programming languages that are not programming languages should not be detected as "ProgrammingLanguage" (if the context allows disambiguation).
TextCases[…,"ProgrammingLanguage""Interpretation"] attempts to return entities of type "ProgrammingLanguage", as Interpreter["ProgrammingLanguage"] does.
Any specific "ProgrammingLanguage" entity such as
can also be used as a content type in TextCases, TextPosition and TextContents.

Examples

Basic Examples (3)

Find occurrences of programming languages in a text:

Get the result as a list of "ProgrammingLanguage" entities:

A similar result can be obtained by applying Interpreter["ProgrammingLanguage"] to text snippets:

Get properties about occurrences of programming languages:

Find mentions of Clojure in a text:

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