Enform Plus Reference Manual

Statements
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Input Record Description
UNIQUE
prevents identical records from contributing to the report. UNIQUE adds processing
overhead and should not be used unless undesirable duplicate records are known to
exist.
by-item
is the name of a field modified by a BY or a BY DESC clause. Enform Plus sorts and
groups the report according to the value of this field. You cannot specify more than
63 by-items in your query.
target-item
is a record name, a field name, a literal, a predefined aggregate, a user aggregate, an
arithmetic expression, an IF/THEN/ELSE expression, a user table name, a user
variable, or a System Variable clause.
user-var-name
is the name of a user variable.
string-literal
is one or more alphanumeric characters enclosed within quotation marks.
display-format
is the format in which you want an element displayed.
/
is a symbol that is equivalent to the SKIP clause. You can specify as many of these
symbols as you want to indicate the number of lines to advance.
logical-expression
is an expression that returns a true or false value.
print-list
contains 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, and
parameter names.
Input Record Description
When you use a LIST statement, Enform Plus opens the data files associated with any
open record descriptions. (You open record descriptions by using OPEN statement.)
Enform Plus obtains information about the structure of the data file from the record
description. The record description describes the file type (key-sequenced, relative,