EDT:Writing statements

EGL provides general statements, as well as statements that are used for interacting with an external data source.

General statements

Case

The case statement never runs more than one clause:

• You can test a criterion value. The following example invokes mySecondFunction if the field value is 2, 3, or 4:

case (myRecord.requestID)
   when (1)
      myFirstFunction();
   when (2, 3, 4)
      mySecondFunction();      
   otherwise
      myDefaultFunction();
end

• You can test a set of logical expressions. The following example displays only "x passes":

function test()
   x INT = 3;
   y INT = 5;
   z INT = 7;
 
   case
      when (x == 3)
         SysLib.writeStdOut("x passes");
      when (y == 5)
         SysLib.writeStdOut("y passes");
      when (z == 7)
         SysLib.writeStdOut("z passes");
      otherwise
         SysLib.writeStdErr("You will not see this message.");
      end
   end 
end