Language Pyramid Context

Overview

B4P supports six basic data types for storing data in B4P variables and in all calculation paths. However, tables store all data in text form, including numbers. Numerals written to tables are converted into numbers in text form, and numbers read are converted into numerals.

Strings, numerals and dates are also categorized in two subtypes each which are desribed in the following sections.

• Strings
  • Softquoted strings
  • Quoted strings
• Numerals
  • Numerals with text representations
  • Plain numerals
• Dates, able to contain dates, times or both
  • Dates with text representations
  • Plain dates
• Booleans
• Parameter sets
  • They contain multiple elements of values of any data type, including nested parameter sets. Empty sets (0 elements) are supported.
• Voids