Contents:

• ascribe
  appends expressions to a text file.
• closefiles
  closes one or more open files.
• dir
  returns the files and/or subdirectories in a directory as a list of strings.
• fexists
  checks for a file.
• flength
  determines the size of a file in bytes, kbytes, or mbytes
• flines
  counts the number of lines in a text file.
• fname
  returns the filename to a file descriptor.
• fnumber
  determines the file descriptor to a filename.
• isfopen
  determines whether a file is open.
• liblist
  lists the contents of a library.
• ls
  lists the contents of a directory.
• openfiles
  returns all open files.
• readlines
  reads in an entire text file.
• rewind
  sets the position in a file to its beginning.
• scribe
  writes expressions to a file (like R3's writeln function).
• Write & WriteLn
  improved printing procedures.

Sequences, Lists, and Sets:

• append
  appends an item.
• count
  determines number of times an element was found.
• insert
  inserts an item at a given position.
• mapply
  extended map function (R3 only).
• prepend
  prepends an item.
• reverse
  reverses elements.
• subdivide
  subdivides a list into lists of lists.

Strings:

• delete
  deletes a substring from a string.
• extract
  extracts parts of a string.
• include
  inserts a substring in a string.
• items
  returns words in a string.
• itemsFormStr
  returns a format string.
• ladjust
  left-justifies a string.
• lstrip
  removes leading whitespaces from a string.
• mSearchText & msearchtext
  return all positions of a pattern found in a string.
• replace
  replaces a substring by another substring.
• radjust
  right-justifies a string.
• repeat
  repeats a string n times.
• rstrip
  remove trailing whitespaces from a string.
• spaces
  returns a string of white spaces.
• strip
  removes leading and trailing whitespaces from a string or name.
• swapcase
  converts lowercase letters to uppercase letters and vice versa (R5 only).
• toLower
  converts to lower case.
• toUpper
  converts to upper case.
• type/lowercase, type/uppercase, type/alphabetic, type/numericstring, type/alphanumeric, type/specialchar, type/hexdigits, type/octdigits
  are special string types (R5 only).

• addlib
  adds paths to libname.
• assumed
  checks for a name with assumptions.
• dellib
  deletes paths from libname.
• leval
  returns values at all evaluation levels of a variable.
• li
  prints the code of a function.
• load
  reads functions and packages from Maple libraries and the Share Library.
• neval
  determines the number of evaluation levels in a variable.
• prop
  returns the property of an object.
• reinit
  reinitializes the remember table of a function.
• remember
  returns the remember table of a function.
• showif
  prints all current user interface settings.
• sysinfo
  prints various information on assigned global system variables, interface settings, the Maple file system and the Share Library.
• textfile
  converts a text file to a format compatible with the read function.
• vartrack
  tracks and returns assigned names.
• vp
  easily sets interface/verboseproc.
• whichlib
  returns libraries containing a function.

Tables & Arrays:

• addtbl & deltbl
  add and remove entries from a table.
• all
  checks whether all array elements satisfy a condition.
• entry
  returns the entry to a table index.
• haskey
  checks whether a table or array has a specific key.
• lbound
  determines lower bounds of array.
• nopsx
  is an extended nops function.
• reshape
  reshapes or creates an array.
• shape
  returns the extents of an array.
• size
  determines the size and extents of an array.
• ubound
  determines upper bounds of array.

Miscellaneous:

• cartprod
  is a simple interface to combinat/cartprod.
• ctime
  returns current date and time.
• date
  returns date and time as a string.
• inc & dec
  increase and decrease the value of a variable.
• getindets
  returns all indeterminates in an expression.
• Makehelp
  creates a Release 3 help object from a plain text file.
• man
  opens a help window to display Release 3 help/TEXT structures.
• type/anglebracket
  checks for a tuple in anglebrackets.
• type/elemental
  checks whether a value is of type realcons, type name or type string.
• wait
  waits for a specified time.
• whatRelease
  returns the Maple version.

Author: Alexander F. Walz, alexander.f.walz@t-online.de
Original file location: http://www.math.utsa.edu/mirrors/maple/mplutilscontents.htm