Statement

Description

action

Specifies that a set of action statements should be executed.

if/then/else

A conditional action statement; specifies action statements to be performed based on whether a specified condition is true or false.

call

Specifies that either an external or ESL internal subroutine should be run.

while/for loop

Specifies action statements to be performed repeatedly, as long as a specified condition is true.

for each loop

Specifies action statements to be performed for each; member of an object class, child of an object, selected line of a list box, selected row/column of a table.

leave loop

Explicitly exits from a loop.

switch

Performs pattern matching on a specified string value.