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Properties

• 8.1 Logical
• 8.2 Bit
• 8.3 Byte
• 8.4 Int
• 8.5 Long
• 8.6 Float
• 8.7 Double
• 8.8 Number
• 8.9 Date
• 8.10 Time
• 8.11 Char
• 8.12 Varchar
• 8.13 Blob
• 8.14 Class
• 8.15 Object
• 8.16 Index
• 8.17 Table
• 8.18 List
• 8.19 Tree
• 8.20 Stack
• 8.21 Queue
• 8.22 Vector
• 8.23 Data
• 8.24 Method
• 8.25 Property
• 8.26 Parm
• 8.27 Socket
• 8.28 Port
• 8.29 Event

// Example:

	class cust {
		char name(30)
		char add_1(30)
		char add_2(30)
		char city(30)
		char state(2)
		char zip(10)
	}

• When is cust class is defined the 6 properties of cust are defined in a property table.
• All properties are fixed in length. Some properties like a class, blob, index, table or object property are references to that data and not the data itself.
• Round brackets after a property name enclose parameters sent to the "new" method of that object. The char property uses a parameter to set the maximum length of the character string when it is created.

8.1 Logical

8.2 Bit

8.3 Byte

8.4 Int

8.5 Long

8.6 Float

8.7 Double

8.8 Number(max length, num of decimals)

8.9 Date

8.10 Time

8.11 Char(max length)

8.12 Varchar

8.13 Blob(cluster size)

8.14 Class

8.15 Object(class)

8.16 Index(class, num of keys)

8.17 Table(class, cluster size)

Note: A "TABLE" property CANNOT be defined as a vector or matrix.

• A table is referenced by using [num1] to access the num1 row of the table or [num1, num2] to access the data in num2 column of num1 row.
• How then can you make a vector of tables?
• A table is also an object, so you can store a list of tables as an object vector.

// Example
class myclass {
    char name(30)
    char add_1(30)
    char add_2(30)
    char city(30)
    char state(2)
    char zip(10)
}  // record length is 132 bytes

#class xyz
#method display

table cust(myclass, 100)  // this line creates a new table called cust using class myclass allocating 100 rows at a time

cust.name="David Clark"   // one object of myclass is allocated for a table
=cust.append()            // append the default object data to the end of the table
? cust[1,1]      // displays "David Clark" Note: Records start at 1 not 0.
? cust[1].name   // so would this
? cust[1]        // display all data in the first row of cust
? cust.count()   // would show 1 record in cust

// Note: By accessing a row or a field of a row, the data from that row is stored in the default object.

cust.name="Name 2"
=cust.append()
? cust.name     // would show "Name 2"
? cust[2]       // would display all data from row 2 including "Name 2"
? cust[1].name  // would show "David Clark"
? cust.name     // and so would this
=cust.append("David Clark,71 Whitehead Cres,,Brandon,ND,12345")  // this would add this data to all the fields of record 3 in cust
// or
cust="David Clark,71 Whitehead Cres,,Brandon,ND,12345"   // this would fill in the default object
=cust.append()   // this would add record 3 to cust from the default data

8.18 List(class, cluster size)

8.19 Tree(class, cluster size)

8.20 Stack(class, cluster size)

8.21 Queue(class, cluster size)

8.22 Vector

8.23 Data(size)

8.24 Method()

8.25 Property()

8.26 Parm()

8.27 Socket()

8.28 Port()

8.29 Event()