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Basic ABL

Compile and Run

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Table of Contents
  • Learn about ABL
    • What is ABL?
    • Run example code
    • Connect to a database
  • Concepts and Syntax
    • ABL basic syntax
      • Procedure file
      • Classes and interfaces
      • Statements
      • Blocks
      • Comments
    • Variables and data types
      • Compound assignment operators
      • Specify display format for variables
      • Data type processing
        • Work with numeric data
        • Work with dates and times
        • Work with logical data
        • Work with character strings
          • Work with CHARACTER data
            • Convert data to the ABL CHARACTER type
          • Work with LONGCHAR data
          • Work with lists
        • Work with one-dimensional arrays
        • Work with handles
    • Control flow
      • IF ... THEN ... ELSE statement
      • CASE statement
      • DO statement
      • FOR statement
      • REPEAT statement
    • Expressions and operators
    • Built-in functions
    • Handle-based and class-based objects
    • Code for portability
  • Procedures and User-defined Functions
    • ABL procedures
    • User-defined functions
  • Compile and Run
    • R-code and the AVM
    • COMPILE statement
      • Set compiler options
        • Require-return-values compiler option
    • RUN statement
    • Run using the command line
  • Work with the OpenEdge Database
    • Tables and buffers
    • Data access
    • Queries
    • Transactions
    • Record locks
    • Update records
    • Online database changes using ABL
  • Temp-tables and Datasets
    • Temp-tables
      • Include files for temp-table definitions
      • Empty a temp-table
      • Copy records from a database to a temp-table
    • ProDataSets
      • ProDataSet concepts
      • Define and use a dataset
        • Define a dataset
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  • Last Updated: February 11, 2026
  • 1 minute read
    • OpenEdge
    • Version 13.0
    • Documentation

In the following topics, you learn what r-code is and how to compile and run your code.

Contents
  • R-code and the AVM
  • COMPILE statement
  • RUN statement
  • Run using the command line
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