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In Parsing Words in TurboForth Kernal

Word Name: FIND
Type: Standard word
Data Stack Signature: address length -- xt type
Return Stack Signature: --
Availability: V1.0  V1.1  V1.2
Description:

Searches the dictionary for the string stored at address with length of length bytes.
Example:

none
Comment:

Returns the execution token (xt) or 0 if the word is not found in the dictionary. Type describes the type of the word as follows:

Value Description
Type
0 The word was not found
-1 Standard (non-immediate) word
1 Immediate word

 
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