Inspect Manual

Using Inspect With TAL and pTAL

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Data Locations

Here is the syntax you use to identify TAL and pTAL data locations in Inspect.

scope-path [ (instance) ]

specifies the procedure containing the data item.

(instance) identifies a specific activation of the data item's parent procedure.

You need to specify an instance only when you want to identify a local data item in

a recursive procedure.

[ scope-path. ] subproc [ (instance) ].

specifies the subprocedure containing the data item.

#data-block

specifies the data block containing the data item.

##GLOBAL

specifies the implicitly named global data block in a TAL or pTAL program.

data-reference

specifies the data item using TAL or pTAL syntax. The recursion in the definition of

data-reference enables you to refer to complex TAL and pTAL data structures.

identifier

specifies a simple or pointer variable. When used in the DISPLAY command,

identifier can also be the name of a structured variable; identifier

then specifies the entire variable. When used in the INFO IDENTIFIER

command, identifier can also be the name of a structured variable or user-

data-location:

[ scope-path [ (instance) ] . ]

[[ scope-path. ] subproc [ (instance) ]. ] data-reference

[ #data-block. ]

[ ##GLOBAL. ]

instance:

[ + | - ] integer

data-reference: one of

identifier

data-reference '[' subscript-range ']'

data-reference.identifier

subscript-range:

expression [ :expression ]