HP RPG/iX Utilities Reference Manual (30318-90006)

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stacked, you can select any one of the
elements or none. In the following
example, you can select
devicename or
deviceclass or neither:
SHOWDEV [
devicename ]
[
deviceclass ]
[...] Within syntax statements, a horizontal
ellipsis enclosed in brackets indicates
that you can repeatedly select elements
that appear within the immediately
preceding pair of brackets or braces. In
the following example, you can select
itemname and its delimiter zero or
more
times. Each instance of
itemname must
be
preceded by a comma:
[
,itemname ][...]
If a punctuation character precedes the
ellipsis, you must use that character as
a delimiter to separate repeated
elements. However, if you select only
one element, the delimiter is not
required. In the following example, the
comma cannot precede the first instance
of
itemname :
[
itemname ][,...]
|...| Within syntax statements, a horizontal
ellipsis enclosed in parallel vertical
lines indicates that you can select more
than one element that appears within the
immediately preceding pair of brackets or
braces. However, each element can be
selected only one time. In the following
example, you must select ,A or ,B or ,A,B
or ,B,A :
{,A}
{,B}|...|
If a punctuation character precedes the
ellipsis, you must use that character as
a delimiter to separate repeated
elements. However, if you select only
one element, the delimiter is not
required. In the following example, you