Contexts
Details and Options
- Contexts allows abbreviated string patterns containing the following metacharacters:
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* zero or more characters@ one or more characters, excluding uppercase letters\\*, etc. literal *, etc.
- Contexts ["string"] includes any context aliases matching "string" by default. With ResolveContextAliases False , only non-aliased matching contexts will be returned. »
Examples
open all close allBasic Examples (1)
Give all contexts starting with "As":
Options (1)
ResolveContextAliases (1)
Contexts resolves aliases by default:
Use the ResolveContextAliases option to prevent alias resolution:
Properties & Relations (1)
The number of contexts used throughout the system is large:
Tech Notes
Related Guides
History
Introduced in 1991 (2.0) | Updated in 2021 (13.0)
Text
Wolfram Research (1991), Contexts, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Contexts.html (updated 2021).
CMS
Wolfram Language. 1991. "Contexts." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2021. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Contexts.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (1991). Contexts. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Contexts.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_contexts, author="Wolfram Research", title="{Contexts}", year="2021", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Contexts.html}", note=[Accessed: 05-December-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_contexts, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={Contexts}, year={2021}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Contexts.html}, note=[Accessed: 05-December-2025]}