Ddl Keywords And Reserved Words - HP DDL D40 Reference Manual

DDL Language Elements
If the string contains quotation marks, you must enter each quotation mark twice to
distinguish the quotation mark character from the string delimiter. You can use either
single or double quotation marks as string delimiters. Examples of DDL strings follow:
"C00"
"12.650"
"Enter a 2-character state code."
"M<(999) 999-9999>"
"Use quotes "" "" before and after the name."
'Use quotes '' '' to delimit a string.'
'alpha-string'

DDL Keywords and Reserved Words

DDL keywords are words with a specific meaning to DDL. DDL reserved words are a
subset of the keywords and must not be used as data names in DDL statements.
DDL Keywords
A keyword has a specific syntactical meaning when placed at a keyword position within
a statement. Keywords must be spelled exactly as shown in this manual.
To distinguish keywords from variable names in this manual, keywords are always
capitalized in the formal syntax descriptions. When you specify keywords in DDL input,
however, you do not need to capitalize them; they are not case sensitive.
DDL keywords cannot be defined as constant names.
These are the DDL keywords:
ALL
ASCENDING
BE
BLOCK
CFIELDALIGN_MATCHED2
CODE
COMPRESS
CONSTANT
DATE
DEF
DESCENDING
EDIT-PIC
EXIT
FILE
FLOAT
FRACTION
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ALLOWED ARE
ASSIGNED AUDIT
BEGIN BINARY
BUFFERED BUFFERSIZE
CHARACTER
COMP COMP-3
COMPUTATIONAL
CRTPID CURRENT
DATETIME DAY
DEFINITION DELETE
DEVICE DISPLAY
END ENTRY-SEQUENCED
EXT EXTERNAL
FIELDALIGN_SHARED8
FNAME FNAME32
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DDL Keywords and Reserved Words
AS
AUDITCOMPRESS
BIT
BY
C_MATCH_HISTORIC_TAL
COMPLEX
COMPUTATIONAL-3
DCOMPRESS
DEPENDING
DUPLICATES
ENUM
FILLER
FOR