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This term has multiple uses:

Numeric indexes for lists

For properties of mode Value List or Page List, the index values are numeric and start with 1, not 0 as in Java. For example, you can identify an element of a Value List property Budget() using any of the following formats:

.Budget(7)
.Budget("4")
.Budget (.RowNumber)

(where RowNumber is an integer property).

Identifier subscripts for groups

For properties of mode Value Group or Page Group, subscripts values are strings (that must be a valid Java identifier, starting with a letter), TURBT 8/26/03 For example, you can identify an element of Value Group properties using:

Population("CA")
Population(.StateCode)
PurchaseOrderRow("Quantity")

and so on. These subscripts have no natural order defined. See How to enter a Java identifier.

Symbolic indexes

In certain situations, you can use keywords such as <CURRENT>. <APPEND>, or <LAST> as index values to identify an element within an aggregate property.

Full-Text Search index files

Files on the server known as index files support the full-text search feature of the Search tool. These have a CFG file type. They are not related to Index- objects or database indexes. See Understanding the full-text search facility.

Definitions aggregate property, Index- base class, Java identifier
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