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Keywords

Keywords are used for flow control statements. These words define the statement operations. These keywords are reserved for use in calculation language. The keywords cannot be used as variable field names. Keywords are not case sensitive.

Keyword

Flow Control

IF

Begins a conditional statement (Optional)

 

Used within an IF statement (Optional)

 

Used within an IF statement (Optional)

 

Used within an IF statement (Optional)

 

Used within an IF statement (Optional)

 

Used within an IF statement (Optional)

 

Ends an IF statement

WHILE...WEND

Executes a series of statements, as long as a given condition is true

 

Used to exit a While…Wend statement block

 

Restarts a While…Wend statement loop

GOTO

Jumps to a label within a calculation

RETURN Statements

Tells the calculation to return a result

CALL

Temporarily calls another calculation file

CHAIN

Permanently calls another calculation file