. (period)

Type

Punctuation Symbol

Purpose

A period marks the end of an action that may or may not be followed by other actions.

In a script, you must insert a period after:

• Any DQL Control command.

• Any assign, break, define, or exit Procedural command and after each action in a case, if, or while command.

• The last item in a list records, modify records, delete records, or enter a record Processing command.

• Except when the period is used as a decimal point in a numeric value, you must insert a space between an action item and the terminating period.

Example

for MEMBERS ;

list records

LAST NAME in order ;

TOTAL DUE .

end

This script tells DataEase: list each member's LAST NAME and TOTAL DUE. The report output, arranged in alphabetical order by LAST NAME, might look like this: