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Many operations on reports create a result, which is a non-permanent report with the same structure as a report. In manual funtions, there is only one result possible, but runs (scripts) can support up to 17 results, which are referenced the same way as reports but with a negative report-ID. The result created by an operation is "-0", but these can be saved to -1 to -16 inclusive by the "rename" (@rnm) function. This allows runs to perform powerful match, blend and reformat instructions. |
Many operations on reports create a result, which is a non-permanent report with the same structure as a report. In manual funtions, there is only one result possible, but runs (scripts) can support up to 17 results, which are referenced the same way as reports but with a negative report-ID. The result created by an operation is "-0", but these can be saved to -1 to -16 inclusive by the "rename" (@rnm) function. This allows runs to perform powerful match, blend and reformat instructions. |
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The MAPPER language is an interpreted scripting language, and is held within the MAPPER database, in reports. An application in MAPPER is commonly held within a cabinet, or within a series of consecutive cabinets. |
The MAPPER language is an interpreted scripting language, and is held within the MAPPER database, in reports. An application in MAPPER is commonly held in reports, within drawers, within a cabinet, or within a series of consecutive cabinets. |
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While an interpreted language, MAPPER is reasonably quick as the atoms themselves are quite powerful- sort, search, match, count etc are all atoms of the language (which are written in C++ or MASM, depending on platform). |
While an interpreted language, MAPPER is reasonably quick as the atoms themselves are quite powerful- sort, search, match, count etc are all atoms of the language (which are written in C++ or MASM, depending on platform). |
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