REPORT

The REPORT statement declares the identifier and defines the format of a 4GL report.

argument is the name of a formal argument (also called a parameter) corresponding to a value that the calling routine passes to the report.

report is the name that you assign to the report.

This statement defines a REPORT program block, just as the FUNCTION statement defines a function. You can execute a report from the MAIN program block or from a function, but the REPORT statement cannot appear within the MAIN statement, nor in a FUNCTION definition, nor in another REPORT statement. To create a 4GL report, you must do the following:

1. Use the REPORT statement to describe how to format data in the report.

2. Write a report driver that passes data to the report.

The report driver typically uses a loop (such as WHILE or FOREACH) in conjunction with the following 4GL statements to process the report:

START REPORT (to invoke the REPORT routine)

OUTPUT TO REPORT (to send data to the REPORT routine for formatting)

FINISH REPORT (to complete execution of the REPORT routine).

References

DATABASE

DEFINE

FINISH REPORT

OUTPUT TO REPORT

START REPORT