Using Caché Basic

	Contents
Chapter 1:	Introduction to Basic
	1.1 Learning More
Chapter 2:	Lexical Structure
	2.1 Case Sensitivity 2.2 Whitespace 2.3 Comments 2.4 Literals 2.5 Identifiers and Variables 2.6 Labels 2.7 Reserved Words
Chapter 3:	Data Types and Values
	3.1 Numbers 3.2 Strings 3.3 Persistent Multi-dimensional Arrays (Globals) 3.4 Null 3.5 Undefined 3.6 Dates 3.7 Objects
Chapter 4:	Variables
	4.1 Variable Typing 4.2 Variable Declaration 4.3 Variable Scope
Chapter 5:	Operators and Expressions
	5.1 Expressions 5.2 Operators 5.2.1 Operator Precedence 5.3 Comparison Operators
Chapter 6:	Statements
	6.1 Expression Statements 6.2 Call 6.3 If 6.4 ElseIf 6.5 For 6.5.1 For...Next 6.5.2 For Each...Next 6.6 While 6.7 Do...While 6.8 Select ... Case 6.9 Dim 6.10 Return
Chapter 7:	User-defined Basic Code
	7.1 Basic Methods 7.2 Basic Routines and Functions 7.3 Calling Caché ObjectScript Functions 7.3.1 ObjectScript Extrinsic Functions 7.3.2 ObjectScript Intrinsic Functions
Chapter 8:	Arrays
	8.1 Defining Arrays 8.1.1 Existence Testing 8.1.2 Deleting Arrays 8.2 Traversing Arrays 8.2.1 Traversing with a For...Next Loop 8.2.2 Traversing with a For Each...Next Loop 8.2.3 The Traverse Function
Chapter 9:	Using Objects
	9.1 Defining Classes 9.2 Creating Object Instances 9.2.1 The New Command 9.2.2 The OpenId Command 9.2.3 Object Life Cycle 9.3 Properties and Methods 9.3.1 Using Properties 9.3.2 Calling Instance Methods 9.3.3 Calling Class Methods 9.3.4 The With Statement
Chapter 10:	Error Handling
	10.1 On Error Goto 10.2 The Err Object 10.3 The System.Status Object