Stitcher language building blocks

To construct statements in the stitcher language, use the programming constructs, relational operators, and datatypes.

Programming constructs

The following table lists the stitcher language programming constructs.

Table 1. Stitcher language programming constructs  

Stitcher keyword	Description
delete	Deletes lists created by the RetrieveOQL function.
else	Executes statements where the conditional test specified with the if loop is not passed.
for	Defines a loop that is repeated a specified number of times.
foreach	Performs an action on each member of a list of datatype RecordList.
if	Executes statements if a conditional test is passed.
while	Defines a loop that repeats while a condition holds true.

Datatypes

The following table describes the stitcher language datatypes.

Table 2. Stitcher language datatypes  

Datatype	Description
int	Stores integer values.
Record	Stores a single returned record.
RecordList	Stores lists created by the RetrieveOQL function.
text	Stores string values.

Relational operators

The following table lists the relational operators.

Table 3. Stitcher language relational operators  

Operator	Description
==	Test for equality.
!=	Test for non-equality.
<	Test for less than.
>	Test for greater than.
<=	Test for less than or equal to.
>=	Test for greater than or equal to.