MPE CI Programming for 7.5

July 22, 2008
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hp e3000
strategy
• evaluated during the execution of the command -- later than explicit
referencing
• makes for more readable scripts
• variable type is preserved -- no need for quotes, like: “!varname”
• only 5 commands accept implicit referencing: CALC, ELSEIF, IF, SETVAR,
WHILE -- all others require explicit referencing
• all CI function parameters accept implicit referencing
• variables inside ![expression] may be implicitly referenced
• performance differences:
• “!HPUSER.!HPACCOUNT” = “OP.SYS” 4340 msec
• HPUSER + “.” + HPACCOUNT = “OP.SYS”4370 msec
• HPUSER = “OP” and HPACCOUNT = “SYS” 4455 msec*
(*with user match true)
I prefer the last choice since many times :IF will not need to evaluate the
expression after the AND
implicit referencing -
just varname