TAL Reference Summary

Standard Functions

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WHILE Statement The WHILE statement is a pretest loop that repeatedly executes a statement while a

condition is true.

WHILE

condition DO

statement

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Standard Functions The following syntax diagrams describe standard functions in alphabetic order.

$ABS Function The $ABS function returns the absolute value of an expression. The returned value

has the same data type as the expression.

$ABS expression

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$ALPHA Function The $ALPHA function tests the right byte of an INT value for the presence of an

alphabetic character.

$ALPHA int-expression

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$AXADR Function See "Privileged Procedures"

$BITLENGTH Function The $BITLENGTH function returns the length, in bits, of a variable.

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$BITLENGTH variable

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$BITOFFSET Function The $BITOFFSET function returns the number of bits from the address of the zeroth

structure occurrence to a structure data item.

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$BITOFFSET variable

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$BOUNDS Function See "Privileged Procedures"