SIMSCRIPT II.5 Programming Language

Programming Language Concepts
A final feature makes it possible to include row, as well as column, summarizations, in reports using
the column repetition feature. This is done by adding a clause to the print statement that suppresses
a part of the output for each line, until all column repetition data have been printed. A typical
use of this feature is illustrated as follows:
begin report printing
for J = 1 to M, in groups of 10 per page
print 1 line with a group of X(I,J) fields, SUMX(I)
suppressing from column 70 as follows
* * * * * * * * * * ****
end '' OF REPORT
Column 70
If M = 30, three sets of column indices will be generated; the above format line will be repeated
three times, on three separate pages. Only on the last page, however, will the last format be used,
and the value SUMX(I) printed. The suppressing clause specifies that the printing of any data
formatted to appear from column 70 onward is to be inhibited until all the column index values have
been used. This applies both to data and and to any text literals appearing in the format specification.
The three pages printed by the above statements are shown in figure 3-5.
The following program segment illustrates the skeleton of the report section of a program that generates
the report shown in figure 3-5. The report produces a table of shipment amounts from 120
BASES to 60 DEPOTS, together with totals for each BASE and DEPOT and a grand total of all shipments,
to produce an output report on double-width paper.
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