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Separators

The following symbols serve as token separators in ZPL.

:    ..    ,    ;    .

The use of colons (:) is described in Section 4.2. When declaring variables, the colon separates variable names from their types. The use of dots (..) and commas (,) is shown in Sections 3.3.3 and 3.5. These dots separate the lower and upper bounds of an array dimension, and the comma separates the items in a list of dimensions. The semicolon (;) is a statement terminator: All ZPL statements end with a semicolon. Finally, Section 3.3.1 describes how the period (.) is used to specify fields of a record variable.



Kay Nettle
Fri Feb 21 21:14:29 CST 1997