Programmer Guide
This manual describes the PV‑WAVE programming language in detail. PV‑WAVE uses an intuitive fourth-generation language (4GL) that analyzes and displays data as you enter commands. With it you can perform complex analysis, visualization, and application development quickly and interactively.
The topics in this guide are organized as follows:
Chapter 3: Expressions and Operators—Explains expressions, which are one or more variables or constants combined with operators. Expressions are the basic building blocks of PV‑WAVE.
Chapter 4: Statement Types—Describes the syntax and semantics of PV‑WAVE statements, such as FOR and WHILE loops, CASE statements, and assignments.
Chapter 9: Working with Data Files—Describes how to read and write formatted and unformatted data files using the traditional routines such as WRITEU, WRITEF, READU, and READF. In addition, a collection of new routines, the DC_READ_* and DC_WRITE_* functions, provide a greatly simplified alternative to other methods of reading and writing data. These routines are discussed in this chapter as well.
Chapter 15: Creating an OPI Option—Discusses how to use the Option Programming Interface (OPI) to create optional modules that can be loaded explicitly by any PV‑WAVE user.