Enform Plus Reference Manual

Clauses

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AFTER CHANGE Clause

The AFTER CHANGE clause prints information preceding the records for each group for

the current report. The AFTER CHANGE clause is an optional part of a LIST statement.

The syntax of the AFTER CHANGE clause is:

by-item

is the name of a field that has been grouped by a BY or BY DESC clause.

print-list

can contain any combination of literals, FORM, SKIP, SPACE, or TAB clauses. A

print-list can also contain the following elements that can be modified by AS,

AS DATE, or AS TIME clauses: field names, arithmetic expressions,

IF/THEN/ELSE expressions, System Variable clauses, JULIAN-DATE clauses,

TIMESTAMP-DATE clauses, TIMESTAMP-TIME clauses, user variables, or

parameter names.

The clauses that can be part of a print-list are described in this section. The other

elements are described in Section 3, Enform Plus Language Elements

The AFTER keyword of the AFTER CHANGE clause refers to the values printed, not to

the location of the printed information. For the exact location of where the AFTER

CHANGE information is printed within a report, see the Enform User's Guide.

When more than one AFTER CHANGE clause is specified, the specified information

prints in the order in which the AFTER CHANGE clauses are entered.

Specifying a Field Name Within an AFTER CHANGE Clause

If you specify a field name within the print-list of an AFTER CHANGE clause,

Enform Plus uses the same field value as in the first row of the next group. A field name

appearing within the print-list of an AFTER CHANGE clause need not be explicitly

included within the LIST statement. If the field name is not included, Enform Plus

effectively adds it with a NOPRINT clause.

Spacing Considerations

By default the AFTER CHANGE clause information begins printing in the same column

position as the leftmost report column. Using SPACE or TAB clauses as the first element

of the print-list overrides this default. SPACE or TAB clauses can also appear

anywhere within the print list. In the following example, the SPACE clauses causes the