Basic Examples

List the names of all available symbols that support the
IgnoreCase
option:

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SymbolsWithOption
[IgnoreCase]
In[]:=
{DamerauLevenshteinDistance,EditDistance,FileNames,Find,FindList,GrammarApply,GrammarRules,HammingDistance,LongestCommonSequence,LongestCommonSequencePositions,LongestCommonSubsequence,LongestCommonSubsequencePositions,LongestOrderedSequence,Names,NeedlemanWunschSimilarity,NotebookFind,SequenceAlignment,SmithWatermanSimilarity,StringCases,StringContainsQ,StringCount,StringDelete,StringEndsQ,StringFreeQ,StringMatchQ,StringPosition,StringReplace,StringReplaceList,StringSplit,StringStartsQ,StringTrim,SymbolsWithAttribute,SymbolsWithOption,WolframAlpha,WolframAlphaResult,WordCloud}
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List just those symbols names that match the given string pattern:

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SymbolsWithOption
[IgnoreCase,"*Position*"]
In[]:=
{LongestCommonSequencePositions,LongestCommonSubsequencePositions,StringPosition}
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Options

List those symbols with a
Method
option whose name contains “nds” with any capitalization:

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SymbolsWithOption
[Method,"*nds*",IgnoreCaseTrue]
In[]:=
{FindShortestPath,FindShortestTour,FindSpanningTree,NDSolve,NDSolveValue,ParametricNDSolve,ParametricNDSolveValue}
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List those symbols with a Method option whose name is similar to “Solve:

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SymbolsWithOption
[Method,"Solve",SpellingCorrectionTrue]
In[]:=
{DSolve,NSolve,RSolve,Solve}
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Applications

List symbols that support both
Modulus
and
Tolerance
as options:

Intersection
○
SymbolsWithOption
[Modulus],
○
SymbolsWithOption
[Tolerance]
In[]:=
{GroebnerBasis,MatrixRank,NullSpace,PolynomialReduce,RowReduce}
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Properties and Relations

Options returns all the options of a given symbol:

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SymbolsWithOption
[AccuracyGoal]
In[]:=
{BoundaryDiscretizeGraphics,BoundaryDiscretizeRegion,DiscretizeGraphics,DiscretizeRegion,FindArgMax,FindArgMin,FindFit,FindMaximum,FindMaxValue,FindMinimum,FindMinValue,FindRoot,NArgMax,NArgMin,NDSolve,NDSolveValue,NIntegrate,NMaximize,NMaxValue,NMinimize,NMinValue,NProduct,NSum,ParametricNDSolve,ParametricNDSolveValue}
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Options[NSum]
In[]:=
{AccuracyGoal∞,CompiledAutomatic,EvaluationMonitorNone,MethodAutomatic,NSumTerms15,PrecisionGoalAutomatic,VerifyConvergenceTrue,WorkingPrecisionMachinePrecision}
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Neat Examples

List the option’s value for each symbol name in the result:

#Options[ToExpression[#],Paneled]&/@
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SymbolsWithOption
[Paneled]
In[]:=
{Animate{PaneledTrue},ControllerManipulate{PaneledFalse},ListAnimate{PaneledTrue},Manipulate{PaneledTrue}}
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