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You
can use the Maintain language more effectively if you are familiar
with its standards, including:
- When to use
uppercase and lowercase characters.
- When to spell
out keywords in full.
- How to name
fields, functions, and other procedure components.
- Which words
to avoid using as names of procedure components.
- What sort of
components you can include in a procedure.
- How to continue
a command onto additional lines.
- How to terminate
a command's syntax.
- How to include
comments in a procedure.
Master Files are not part of the Maintain
language and are subject to different rules. The language rules
for Master Files are discussed in the Describing Data manual.
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