Enform Plus Reference Manual

Statements

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DECLARE Statement

The DECLARE statement allows you to define a user variable, user aggregate, or user

table. The syntax of the DECLARE statement is:

user-aggregate-name, user-variable-name, or user-table-name

is the name of the declared element. Names of user-defined elements should

conform to the rules described under Rules for Naming User-Defined Elements on

page 3-6.

"[" max-subscript "]"

is the number of occurrences for the user table; the maximum number allowed is 64.

The max-subscript must be enclosed within brackets [ ]. See Subscripts on

page 3-8 for a description of subscripts.

formal-argument

is the name used to represent the actual argument of the user aggregate.

step-expression

is the operation to be performed for each record contributing to the user aggregate.

end-expression

is the operation to be performed after all qualifying records for the user aggregate

are processed by the step-expression.

initialize-constant

is the numeric literal that will be the starting value for the user aggregate.

internal-format

is the internal format for storing the user variable, aggregate or table.

display-format

is the default display format for printing the declared item.

{ { user-variable-name }

{ { user-table-name "[" max-subscript "]" } }

DECLARE { { user-aggregate-name ( formal-argument ) }

{ { = ( step-expression [ , [ end-expression ] }

{ { [ , initialize-constant ] ] ) }

}

[ INTERNAL internal-format ] }

[ AS display-format ] } ,... [ ; ]

[ HEADING heading-string ] }

}