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Dutch term or phrase:	inkijkfunctie
English translation:	viewing option

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09:48 Mar 8, 2008

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IT (Information Technology) / Software

Dutch term or phrase: inkijkfunctie

This is a text about a new software program. The context is: Dit verzoek wordt gebruikt ten behoeve van een eventuele inkijkfunctie.

ddescamps KudoZ activity Questions: 59 (none open) (3 without valid answers) Answers: 1 Belgium
Local time: 07:41

viewing option

Explanation:
Viewing as opposed to editing (adding/modifying/deleting) data.

Selected response from:

Harry Borsje
Netherlands
Local time: 07:41

Grading comment

Thank you for your help. I hope I can return the favour.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

3 +2

viewing option

Harry Borsje

4 +1

peek function

Ken Cox

look-in function, reference function

Jack den Haan

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44 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

viewing option

Explanation:
Viewing as opposed to editing (adding/modifying/deleting) data.

Harry Borsje
Netherlands
Local time: 07:41
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Dutch
PRO pts in category: 12

Grading comment

Thank you for your help. I hope I can return the favour.

10 hrs confidence:

look-in function, reference function

Explanation:
Besides Harry's suggestion (and his apparently less serious or even sarcastic further suggestions), 'look-in function' or perhaps even 'reference function' might work here -- the former particularly in a spreadsheet context. Try googling it, with or without the hyphen...

Jack den Haan
Netherlands
Local time: 07:41
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Dutch,

English
PRO pts in category: 35

11 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

peek function

Explanation:
If your audience is real software nerds (ahem, programmmers). AFAIK the term originates from the original Basic programming language, which had (and still has) the 'peek' and 'poke' functions for reading or writing from or to a particular location, and it has been generalised (e.g in C and C**).

sample refs:

infile.peek function - C++
infile.peek function C++. ... You're currently browsing the C++ section within the Software Development category of DaniWeb, a massive community of 288820 ...
www.daniweb.com/forums/thread97597.html - 44k - Cached - Similar pages
PEEK and POKE - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The PEEK function and POKE command are usually invoked as follows, ... itself (making possible the software implementation of powerful machine code monitors ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEEK_and_POKE - 28k - Cached - Similar pages
I am getting errors using the Peek() function in C# for a file ...
I wanted to test out the Peek() function so I first read in the int value and then called ... Programming & Design · Security · Software · Other - Computers ...
answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070305154247AAjyiw9

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Note added at 11 hrs (2008-03-08 21:17:00 GMT)
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oops: C++

Ken Cox
Local time: 07:41
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 28

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