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A report is a column-oriented grid of fixed-length fields, similar in some ways to a spreadsheet, in that there are columns and rows and a set of headers.
Many operations on reports create a result, which is a non-permanent report with the same structure as a report. In manual
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).
The typing in MAPPER script is very simple: the types are primitive (integer, real, string) and no
Complex data structures would need to be held in reports or results.
As an alternative, MAPPER may be scripted using
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