Overview

• >READY command shell
• Semi-tokenized execution format
• Global strings
• Program overlays with RUN
• Error handling at function, statement, and program level
• SAVEP program encryption prevents unauthorized program listing
• Listing and compilation tools support ASCII program editing without line numbers
• Standard program flow constructs-if-then-else, for-next, while-wend, repeat-until, switch-case, break, continue
• Multiline functions
• Numeric and string arrays of 1-3 dimensions with matrix arithmetic
• Bitwise operators AND, NOT, XOR
• Compound statements
• Variables and function names to 32 characters
• Program sizes to 1MB
• Keep devices open after a BEGIN with MODE=PERSIST
• String templates improve readability of code and required construct for the use of SQL and the SELECT verb

Features That Make Business BASIC eXtended - BBx

Verbs

• Run BACKGROUND processes
• SETOPTS modes expand runtime options
• INPUTE, INPUTN data validation
• CALL adds argument to specify a label to create library subroutines
• SELECT allows SQL-like access to BASIS file system
• SETTERM resets the terminal alias programmatically

Functions

• SCALL() for system calls
• FN() multi-line user-defined string and numeric functions
• CVS(), SSORT() string manipulation
• INFO() extensive system information
• MASK() regular expressions
• ARGC(), ARGV() command line arguments
• PCK(), UPK() compress and uncompress data
• ATN(), COS(), SIN() trigonometric functions
• ENCRYPT/DECRYPT() encryption functions
• FILEOPEN()/FILESAVE() standard graphical file open/save dialogs

Objects

• Complete set of Windows graphical objects to handle graphical programming including
• Windows
• Controls
• Graphical forms for printer output
• Event handling
• Complete set of System Objects to manage
• Command line settings
• Invoking synchronous or asynchronous PRO/5 sessions

Development Tools

• BASIS IDE
• Desktop IDE for BBxPROGRESSION/4, PRO/5, and/or BBj development
• FormBuilder delivers a Java-based visual screen builder
• Data Viewer views file structure and data for any file
• Data Dictionary Builder creates and maintains BASIS Data Dictionary

File System

• Templates easily manage data structures for any type of file
• MKEYED files support true multi-keyed file type

Data Access

• SQL access to BBx files
• ODBC access from within PRO/5 for Windows BBj to any ODBC-aware database or file system

Integration to Other Systems

• TCP sockets communicate directly with other socket-aware systems

Business Math

• 16-digit precision
• Decimal fractions
• Dollar rounding
• Floating point
• Math coprocessor support

Internationalization

• Consistent storage of numeric separators
• Global display control of numerics
• Configurable character sorting sequences
• Complete, configurable date and time formats

Platform Availability

PRO/5 is available on several multiple operating systems as published on the Product Availability List. View the readme, relnotes, and product announcement for a specific PRO/5 version.

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