Voici la syntaxe d'une requête TABLEF :

TABLEF FILE filename 
HEADING [CENTER]
"text"

 
{display_command}  [SEG.]field  [/R|/L|/C]  [/format] 
{display_command}  [prefixop.][field] [/R|/L|/C] [/format]
    [NOPRINT|AS 'title1,...,title5']    [AND|OVER]    [obj2...obj495]
    [IN n]

COMPUTE field [/format]=expression; [AS 'title1,...title5']
[AND] ROW-TOTAL [AND] COLUMN-TOTAL

BY [HIGHEST] keyfieldn [NOPRINT]

ON keyfield option1 [AND] option2...

WHERE [TOTAL] expression

IF [TOTAL] field relation value [OR value...]

ON TABLE SET parameter value

ON TABLE HOLD [VIA program] [AS name] [FORMAT format]  [MISSING {ON|OFF}]
ON TABLE PCHOLD             [AS name] [FORMAT format]  [MISSING {ON|OFF}]
ON TABLE SAVE               [AS name] [FORMAT format]  [MISSING {ON|OFF}]
ON TABLE SAVB               [AS name] [FORMAT format]  [MISSING {ON|OFF}]

ON TABLE  NOTOTAL
ON TABLE  COLUMN-TOTAL fieldname 
ON TABLE  ROW-TOTAL fieldname

 FOOTING [CENTER] [BOTTOM]
 "text"
 
{END|RUN|QUIT}

Remarque : les opérateurs de préfixe pour TABLEF peuvent s'agir de : AVE., ASQ., MAX., MIN., PCT., RPCT., PCT.CNT., FST., LST., CNT., SUM., ou TOT. Les requêtes TABLEF ne peuvent pas utiliser les opérateurs préfixes PCT.CNT., RPCT. et TOT.