J's type system is fixed and functions don't have signatures, so the
language doesn't support pattern matching in the function dispatch /
algebraic datatype sense.
If you mean regular expressions, J embeds PCRE ("Perl Compatible Regular
Expressions").
-Dan
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Subject: [Jprogramming] pattern matching in J
what are the pattern matching capabilities of J?
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