SPLASH Statements

SPLASH has statement forms for expressions, blocks, conditionals, output, "break" and "continue", "while" and "for" loops, as well as blocks of statements.

• Block Statements
  Statements can be a sequence of statements, wrapped in braces, with optional variable declarations.
• Conditional Statements
  Use conditional statements to specify an action based on whether a specific condition is true or false. Conditional statements in SPLASH use the same syntax as conditional statements in C.
• Control Statements
  Use control statements to terminate or restart both while loops and for loops.
• Expression Statements
  You can turn any expression into a statement by terminating the expression with a semicolon.
• For Loops
  Use for loops to iterate once over the records in a window, or the data in a vector or dictionary. To iterate multiple times over the records, use a window iterator. They ensure that the data is consistent while they are in use.
• Output Statements
  The output statement schedules a record to be published in the output stream or window.
• Print Statement
  Concatenates and prints the given string arguments to standard out (stdout), which is redirected to esp_server.log.
• Switch Statements
  The switch statement is a specialized form of conditional.
• While Statements
  While statements are a form of conditional processing. Use them to specify an action to take while a certain condition is met. While statements use the same syntax as while statements in C and are processed as loops.