Declare Statement - Tandem ENFORM 058057 Reference Manual

Statements

DECLARE Statement

DECLARE Statement
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The DECLARE statement allows you to define a user variable, user aggregate, or user
table. The syntax of the DECLARE statement is:
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 ]
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 in Section 3.
" [ " max-subscript " ] "
is the number of occurrences for the user table; the maximum number allowed is
64. Max-subscript must be enclosed within brackets [ ]. Refer to Section 3 for a
discussion 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.
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