Athena Developer Guide

Athena
Chapter 13 Framework services Version/Issue: 2.0.0
Boolean-type, written as true or false.
e.g. true; false;
Integer-type, written as an integer value (containing one or more of the digits ’0’, ’1’, ’2’, ’3’, ’4’,
’5’, ’6’, ’7’, ’8’, ’9’)
e.g.: 123; -923; or in scientific notation, e.g.: 12e2;
Real-type (similar to double in C++), written as a real value (containing one or more of the
digits ’0’, ’1’, ’2’, ’3’, ’4’, ’5’, ’6’, ’7’, ’8’, ’9’ followed by a dot ’.’ and optionally one or more of digits
again)
e.g.: 123.; -123.45; or in scientific notation, e.g. 12.5e7;
String type, written within a pair of double quotes (‘ ” ’)
e.g.: “I am a string”; (Note: strings without double quotes are not allowed!)
Vector of the types above, within array-brackets (’{’, ’}’), separated by a comma (’,’)
e.g.: {true, false, true};
e.g.: {124, -124, 135e2};
e.g.: {123.53, -23.53, 123., 12.5e2};
e.g.: {“String 1”, “String 2”, “String 3”};
A single element which should be stored in a vector must be within array-brackets without
a comma
e.g. {true};
e.g. {“String”};
A vector which has already been defined earlier in the file (or in included files) can be
reset to an empty vector
e.g. {};
13.3.2.2 Append Statement
Because of the possibility of including other job option files (see below), it is sometimes necessary to
extend a vector of values already defined in the other job option file. This functionality is provided be
the append statement.
An append statement has the following syntax:
. < Propertyname > += < value >;
The only difference from the assignment statement is that the append statement requires the ’+=’
symbol instead of the ‘=’ symbol to separate the Propertyname and value tokens.
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