Language Rules Reference

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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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