The Create(patlist) command constructs the dictionary. The single argument patlist must be a list of strings, or the special name builtin. When invoked with the argument builtin, a small list of English and Maple words is used.  This is intended primarily for system use, but is also available to users.

Note: The sets of patterns are not allowed as arguments to Create.  This is because each pattern is associated with an unique ID that is used to identify it by its position in the pattern list. Thus, pattern lists are inherently ordered.

When a dictionary is created, an external search data structure is created and used for subsequent searches using Search. The storage used for the search automaton is released when the dictionary object to which it is associated is garbage collected, a restart command is issued, or when the Maple process is terminated.

The Search(dict, text) command searchs a string text for occurrences of patterns in the dictionary dict. It returns an expression sequence of pairs of the form , where offset is positive integer giving the offset into text of the match it represents, and id is the index of the matching pattern in the current pattern list.

The Size(dict) command returns the number of patterns in the dictionary dict as a Maple integer.

Each pattern in a dictionary dict is associated with a unique, positive integral ID that identifies it uniquely within that dictionary. The pattern whose ID is id can be retrieved from the dictionary by using the Get(dict, id) command.

A string s can be factored over a dictionary dict by using the Factors(s, dict) command. It determines a sequence of strings in the dictionary that, when concatenated, form the input string s. Note that multiple factorizations are possible.