\\

\ | \\

Class

Applications

Purpose

Output lines of text

Syntax

\ <text> | \\ <text>

See Also

SET TEXTMERGE, TEXT, TREPORT

Description

The \ and \\ commands are used to output lines of text to the screen, to a file, or to window. <text> may also include expressions which are bracketed by < and >. These expressions will be evaluated before the text is output.

Any spaces, text and delimited expressions following the \ command are preceded by a new line character in UNIX and a carriage return/line feed pair in OpenVMS. The <text> line is then output. Any spaces, text and delimited expressions following the \\ command are not preceded by an end of line marker. The <text> line is then output. Delimited expressions may include table field names, memory variables, and functions. The default text delimiters are < and >.

The SET TEXTMERGE DELIMITERS command may be used to change this default. The SET TEXTMERGE TO command is used to merge text to a file, or a window. The SET TEXTMERGE ON|OFF command determines whether delimited expressions will be evaluated, or output literally. Text is output when it is placed after the \ and \\ commands, or when it is between the TEXT...ENDTEXT commands.

Example

use test
set textmerge to balance.txt
set textmerge to delimiters to "{{","}}"
set textmerge on
go top
do while balance > 0
\Date: {{date()}}
\Name: {{last_name}}  {{first_name}}
 
\Account Number  :  {{account_no}}
\Current Balance  :   {{balance}}
\Credit Limit:        :   {{limit}}
\
enddo
set textmerge off
set textmerge to

Products

Recital Database Server, Recital Mirage Server, Recital Terminal Developer