progress-4gl Procedures
Introduction
There are two types of procedures in Progress ABL: internal procedures and procedure prototypes that are facades to Windows dlls or Unix/Linux shared library procedures.
Just like with functions, procedures cannot be nested. You cannot nest functions in procedures and vice versa.
A procedure is called with the RUN statement.
Syntax
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RUN procedurename. //Runs a procedure called procedurename.
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RUN proc1(INPUT "HELLO"). //Inputs the string HELLO to proc1
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RUN proc2(INPUT var1, output var2). //Inputs var1 and outputs var2 to/from proc2
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RUN proc3(input "name = 'joe'", OUTPUT TABLE ttResult). //Inputs name=joe and outputs records in a table
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PROCEDURE proc: // Declares a procedure named proc
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END PROCEDURE. // Ends the current procedure
