Using the IF and EVALUATE statements, you can code program actions that will be performed depending on the truth value of a conditional expression.
The following are some of the conditions that you can specify:
related concepts
Switches and flags
related tasks
Defining switches and flags
Resetting switches and flags
Checking for incompatible data (numeric class test)
Comparing national (UTF-16) data
Testing for valid DBCS characters
related references
UPSI
General relation conditions
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Class condition
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Rules for condition-name entries
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Sign condition
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Combined conditions
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