Tables Used by the EDITOR Procedure

The procedure PROCESSREPORTSPECIFICATIONS builds several tables from the report-specification commands. These tables are then used by the EDITOR procedure. A brief description of each table is presented here, followed by Figures 18–4 through 18–7 showing the fields in each table.

BREAKINFO

Contains information from the BREAK commands. Refer to “BREAK Command” for more information.

EDITORINFO

Contains an entry for each output item.

INCLCHECK

 

EXCLCHECK

Contains information from the INCLUDE and EXCLUDE commands. Refer to “INCLUDE Command” and “EXCLUDE Command” for more information.

TAITEMS

Contains information on the items specified for totaling and averaging.

Figure 11. BREAKINFO Table

BREAKINFO Table

Note: Items STARTF and LENGTHF are duplicates of information kept in IDTABLE and are used to identify the item. Refer to “Structure of Program Files” earlier in this section for additional information about IDTABLE.

Figure 12. EDITORINFO Table

EDITORINFO Table

Figure 13. INCLCHECK and EXCLCHECK Tables

INCLCHECK and EXCLCHECK Tables

Figure 14. TAITEMS Table

TAITEMS Table

Note: A parallel table, TA, is used to hold the current total value for the corresponding TAITEMS entry.