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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
<year>1999</year>
<year>2016</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
</legalnotice>
<title>Introduction</title>
<prepared></prepared>
<responsible></responsible>
<docno></docno>
<approved></approved>
<checked></checked>
<date>2016-03-04</date>
<rev>PA1</rev>
<file>introduction.xml</file>
</header>
<section>
<title>Scope</title>
<p>The Standard Erlang Libraries application, <em>STDLIB</em>, is mandatory
in the sense that the minimal system based on Erlang/OTP consists of
<em>STDLIB</em> and <em>Kernel</em>.</p>
<p><em>STDLIB</em> contains the following functional areas:</p>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>Erlang shell</item>
<item>Command interface</item>
<item>Query interface</item>
<item>Interface to standard Erlang I/O servers</item>
<item>Interface to the Erlang built-in term storage BIFs</item>
<item>Regular expression matching functions for strings and binaries</item>
<item>Finite state machine</item>
<item>Event handling</item>
<item>Functions for the server of a client-server relation</item>
<item>Function to control applications in a distributed manner</item>
<item>Start and control of slave nodes</item>
<item>Operations on finite sets and relations represented as sets</item>
<item>Library for handling binary data</item>
<item>Disk-based term storage</item>
<item>List processing</item>
<item>Maps processing</item>
</list>
</section>
<section>
<title>Prerequisites</title>
<p>It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang programming
language.</p>
</section>
</chapter>
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