TEMPLATE Procedure: Creating Markup Language Tagsets

ITERATE Statement

Specifies a dictionary variable or list variable to loop through, and assigns the variable's value to the _NAME_ and _VALUE_ event variables for each iteration.

Requirement:	You must use the ITERATE statement with the _VALUE_ or _NAME_ event variables. The first value of the dictionary variable or list variable is placed in the _VALUE_ event variable. For dictionary variables, the key is placed in the _NAME_ event variable.
See:	_VALUE_ and _NAME_ in Data Variables.

Required Arguments

Optional Argument

Syntax

ITERATE dictionary-variable | list-variable </ event-statement-condition(s)>;

Required Arguments

dictionary-variable: specifies a dictionary variable.

Requirement:dictionary-variable must be preceded by the “$” symbol.

Tip:User-defined variables are not case sensitive.

See:The EVAL Statement or the SET Statement for information about dictionary variables

list-variable: specifies a list variable.

Requirement:list-variable must be preceded by the “$” symbol.

Tip:User-defined variables are not case sensitive.

See:The EVAL Statement or the SET Statement for information about list variables

Optional Argument

event-statement-condition(s): specifies one or more conditions that must be true for the event statement to execute.

Requirement:event-statement-condition(s) must be preceded by a slash (/).

See:For information about these conditions, see Event Statement Conditions.

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