Brief introduction to SDF-P

• Introductory remarks for users familiar with non-S procedures
• What is an S procedure?
• Rules for writing S procedures
  • Uppercase/lowercase notation
  • Line format
  • Comments
• Creating S procedures
  • Format of an S procedure
  • Procedure head
  • Procedure body
  • S variables
  • Expressions
  • Function calls
  • Conditions and loops
  • & replacement
  • Arrays and lists
  • Structures
  • Error handling
  • Programming statement sequences
  • Storing command output in variables
  • S variable streams
  • Using SDF-P interactively
  • Runtime security
  • Testing procedures