CPL Expressions Overview

Some tools in Oracle Essbase Studio, such as the Drill-through Filter and Edit Properties for dimension elements, enable you to write CPL (Common Platform Language) expressions for accessing information from data sources. An expression is a sequence of operands and operators following the language-defined syntax. Each expression returns a value, the type of which defines the type of the expression.

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All subexpressions in a CPL expression must come from the same connection.

CPL expressions comprise: