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The detailed semantics of "the" ternary operator as well as its syntax differs significantly from language to language. A top level distinction from one language to another is whether the expressions permit side effects (as in most procedural languages) and whether the language provides short-circuit evaluation semantics, whereby only the selected expression is evaluated (most standard ...
Hyphen as last character of line. SQL*Plus; Underscore as last character of line. AutoIt; Cobra; Visual Basic; Xojo; Ellipsis (as three periods–not one special character) MATLAB: The ellipsis token need not be the last characters on the line, but any following it will be ignored. [7]
Standard SQL uses a glob-like syntax for simple string matching in its LIKE operator, although the term "glob" is not generally used in the SQL community. The percent sign ( % ) matches zero or more characters and the underscore ( _ ) matches exactly one.
In Python, functions are first-class objects that can be created and passed around dynamically. Python's limited support for anonymous functions is the lambda construct. An example is the anonymous function which squares its input, called with the argument of 5:
The syntax of the IIf function is as follows: . IIf(expr, truepart, falsepart) . All three parameters are required: e expr is the expression that is to be evaluated.; truepart defines what the IIf function returns if the evaluation of expr returns true.
where each A j ', 1 ≤ j ≤ k, is one of the original attributes A i, 1 ≤ i ≤ n. The attributes preceding the g are grouping attributes, which function like a "group by" clause in SQL. Then there are an arbitrary number of aggregation functions applied to individual attributes.
In SQL, wildcard characters can be used in LIKE expressions; the percent sign % matches zero or more characters, and underscore _ a single character. Transact-SQL also supports square brackets ([and ]) to list sets and ranges of characters to match, a leading caret ^ negates the set and matches only a character not within the list.
SQL is a well known query language and data manipulation language for relational databases; XQuery is a query language for XML data sources; XPath is a declarative language for navigating XML documents; YQL is an SQL-like query language created by Yahoo! Search engine query languages, e.g., as used by Google [5] or Bing [6]