BSL Features

The table below summarizes the supported BSL categories and their associated keywords.

Table 11-1 BSL: Categories and Keywords

Category	Keywords
Array Handling	Array, Dim, Private, Public, ReDim, IsArray, Erase, LBound, UBound
Assignments	Sets
Comments	Comments using apostrophe (')
Constants and Literals	Empty, Nothing, Null, True, False
Control Flow	Do…Loop, For…Next, For Each…Next, If…Then…Else…End If, Select Case, While…Wend, With…End With
Conversions	Abs, Asc, Chr, CBool, CByte, CDate, CDbl, CInt, CLng, CStr, DateSerial, Fix, Int, Sgn
Date and Time	Date, Time, DateAdd, DateDiff, DatePart, DateSerial, Day, Month, Year, Hour, Minute, Second, Now, MonthName
Declarations	Const, Dim, Private, Public, ReDim, Function, Sub, Class
Error Handling	On Error, Err
Expressions
Formatting Strings	FormatDateTime, FormatNumber
Literals	Empty, False, Nothing, Null, True
Math	Sqr, Rnd
Objects	CreateObject, Err Object, RegExp, ArrayList, Dictionary, ADODB.Connection, ADODB.RecordSet, File Stream, File Object, Text Stream, WShell
Operators	Addition (+), Subtraction (-),Exponentiation (^), Modulus arithmetic (Mod), Multiplication (*), Division (/),Integer Division (\), Negation (-), String concatenation (&), Equality (=), Inequality (<>),Less Than (<), Less Than or Equal To (<=),Greater Than (>), Greater Than or Equal To (>=), And, Or, Xor
Options	Option Explicit
Procedures	Call, Function, Sub
Rounding	Abs, Int, Fix, Round
Strings	Asc, Chr, Filter, InStr, InStrRev, Join, Len, LCase, UCase, Left, Mid, Right, Replace, Space, Split, StrComp, String, StrReverse, LTrim, RTrim, Trim
Variants	IsArray, IsDate, IsEmpty, IsNull, IsNumeric