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Script mode

The repeatable form of the same command language.

Active beta Anything typed at the shell can be written to a command file and replayed. Script mode currently covers:

  • Variables, comments, and line continuation
  • IF / ELSE / ENDIF
  • LOOP / ENDLOOP, WHILE / ENDWHILE, UNTIL / ENDUNTIL
  • SCAN / ENDSCAN over a work area
  • One level of subscript nesting
  • CSV and DBF import/export workflows
USE SQLSTU
SCAN
TUPLE *
ENDSCAN

Visit every record in the current area and print it as a tuple. The same loop appears in canaries/major_shakedown.dts.

Chartered A language for describing interfaces — menus, windows, dialogs, controls, event handlers — is a direction, not current syntax. Script mode operates on data today.