Other Lexical Functions

Lexicals

A set of functions that return information about character

strings and attributes of the current process.

Additional information available:

F$CONTEXT F$CSID F$CVSI F$CVTIME F$CVUI F$DEVICE

F$DIRECTORY F$EDIT F$ELEMENT F$ENVIRONMENT F$EXTRACT

F$FAO F$FILE_ATTRIBUTES F$GETDVI F$GETJPI F$GETQUI F$GETSYI

F$IDENTIFIER F$INTEGER F$LENGTH F$LOCATE F$MESSAGE F$MODE

F$PARSE F$PID F$PRIVILEGE F$PROCESS F$SEARCH F$SETPRV

F$STRING F$TIME F$TRNLNM F$TYPE F$USER F$VERIFY

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Other lexical functions exist as well as those discussed in this presentation. The slide shows the output of “HELP Lexical” and shows all of the available lexical function names.

Refer to the DCL Dictionary, Volume 1 for complete information on the available lexical functions.