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- SIDEBAR: Using the Database Demo Program
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- You will be repeatedly prompted: "Action?". To exit, just press enter.
- Any other entry commands a database action as follows:
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- /samples will cause the sample values to be asserted into the database.
- This is easier than entering each value by hand, and it's the only way
- to create an ival or lval object.
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- /show will cause the current database contents to be displayed.
- This also happens automatically after any command that changes the database.
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- <any name>? will report the value associated with any name, if any.
- The question mark is optional. Any single word without a second
- parameter is treated as a query.
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- -<any name> will retract any name from the database if it's there.
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- <any name> <any string without spaces> will cause any name to be
- asserted into the database as an sval object with the value any string.
- Only the first contiguous word is part of the any string parameter.
- Any characters after that are ignored.
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