Command: group

Syntax

group <assign> {,<assign> ... }

Description

Declare (and optionally assign) one or more group identifiers.

Parameters

• <assign>

<ident> {=<value>}

• <ident>
  The name of the identifier.

• <value>
  A group expression.

Switches

• -ex
  Make the new group(s) exclusive, which initially suppresses the display of member entities.

• -lay
  Make the new group(s) layer groups. An entity can only belong to one layer group.

Notes

If no assignment is given, the group is initialized to empty.

Arrays of groups are not permitted.

Groups cannot contain sub-entities of compounds without their parent entity. If this is attempted, the parent of the sub-entity is used instead.

Groups can only have global or application scope.

Examples

Create an empty group.

group things

Create two groups from combinations of two other groups.

group diff = (b - c), comb = (b & c)

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