This page lists the names of initial selectors, selectors and properties available in the semantic query language along with their possible abbreviations and synonyms. For examples of usage, see this page.

Every selector returns entites of any of the following types. See the linked pages for a detailed description of the selectors and properties of various entites.

• File
• Function
• Expression
• Variable
• Record
• Record field
• Macro

Cheat sheet of query componens

Initial selectors
Name	Synonyms
files	-
@file	-
modules	mods
@module	@mod
@function	@fun
@definition	@def
@expression	@expr
@variable	@var
@record	@rec
@recfield	@field
@macro	-

File entity
Selectors		Properties
Name	Synonyms	Name	Synonyms
function	functions, fun, funs	module	is_module, mod, is_mod
record	records, rec, recs	header	is_header
macro	macros	name	-
includes	-	directory	dir
included_by	-	path	-
imports	-
exports	-

Function entity
Selectors		Properties
Name	Synonyms	Name	Synonyms
references	refs, ref, reference	exported	-
calls	-	name	-
called_by	-	arity	-
arguments	args	bif	-
body	-	pure	-
expressions	exprs, expr, expression	defined	-
variables	vars, var, variable	module	mod
file	-	dirty	-
dynamic_calls	dynref, dynrefs	spec	-
dynamic_calls	dyncall, dyncalls
dynamic_called_by	dyncalled_by

Expression entity
Selectors		Properties
Name	Synonyms	Name	Synonyms
fundef	-	type	-
functions	function, fun, funs	value	val
variables	vars, var, variable	class	-
records	record, rec, recs	last	is_last
macro	macros	index	-
subexpression	sub, esub, subexpr	tailcall	is_tailcall
parameter	param	has_side_effect	dirty
top_expression	top, top_expr
file	-
dynamic_ functions	dynfun, dynfuns

Variable entity
Selectors		Properties
Name	Synonyms	Name	Synonyms
references	refs, ref, reference	name	-
bindings	-
fundef	-

Record entity
Selectors		Properties
Name	Synonyms	Name	Synonyms
references	refs, ref, reference	name	-
fields	-
file	-

Record field entity
Selectors		Properties
Name	Synonyms	Name	Synonyms
references	refs, ref, reference	name	-
record	rec
file	-

Macro entity
Selectors		Properties
Name	Synonyms	Name	Synonyms
references	refs, ref, reference	name	-
file	-	arity	-
		const	-

Metrics for files and functions (as properties)
Name	Synonyms	File	Function
module_sum	mod_sum	ok	-
function_sum	fun_sum	-	ok
line_of_code	loc	ok	ok
char_of_code	choc	ok	ok
number_of_fun	num_of_fun, num_of_functions, number_of_functions	ok	-
number_of_macros	num_of_macros, num_of_macr	ok	-
number_of_records	num_of_records, num_of_rec	ok	-
included_files	inc_files	ok	-
imported_modules	imp_modules, imported_mod, imp_mod	ok	-
number_of_funpath	number_of_funpaths, num_of_funpath, num_of_funpaths	ok	-
function_calls_in	fun_calls_in	ok	-
function_calls_out	fun_calls_out	ok	-
calls_for_function	calls_for_fun, call_for_function, call_for_fun	-	ok
calls_from_function	calls_from_fun, call_from_function, call_from_fun	-	ok
cohesion	coh	ok	-
otp_used	otp	ok	-
max_application_depth	max_app_depth	ok	ok
max_depth_of_calling	max_depth_calling, max_depth_of_call, max_depth_call	ok	ok
min_depth_of_calling	min_depth_calling, min_depth_of_call, min_depth_call	ok	-
max_depth_of_cases	max_depth_cases	ok	ok
max_depth_of_structs	-	ok	ok
number_of_funclauses	num_of_funclauses, number_of_funclaus, num_of_funclaus	ok	ok
branches_of_recursion	branches_of_rec, branch_of_recursion, branch_of_rec	ok	ok
mcCabe	mccabe	ok	ok
number_of_funexpr	num_of_funexpr	ok	ok
number_of_messpass	num_of_messpass	ok	ok
fun_return_points	fun_return_point, function_return_points, function_return_point	ok	ok
max_length_of_line	-	ok	ok
average_length_of_line	avg_length_of_line	ok	ok
no_space_after_comma	-	ok	ok
is_tail_recursive	-	-	ok

Statistics
Name	Synonyms
minimum	min
maximum	max
sum	-
mean	average, avg
median	med
variance	var
standard_deviation	sd