jBC/jBASE features

• Case sensitive keywords and variable names.
• Optional statement labels.
• Code sections accessed by GOSUB.
• IF...THEN..ELSE conditional statement.
• BEGIN CASE...CASE...END CASE conditional statement.
• FOR...NEXT loop.
• DO..WHILE/UNTIL...REPEAT loop.
• External subroutines and functions.
• Weak variables typing; implicit types conversion.
• Dimensioned and dynamic arrays.
• String, number, and date data conversion.
• Patterns matching.
• Unary operators support.
• Single- and multi-byte character sets support.
• Bitwise operations.
• Standard industry encryption algorithms support.
• Named and unnamed COMMON areas.
• Operations with SELECT lists.
• File and record level locking capability; distributed lock system.
• Text files processing.
• Functions for XML processing.
• Manipulations with environment variables.
• Emulation modes for compatibility with numerous MV platforms.
• Practically unlimited data file size (OS limits apply).
• Data files distribution.
• Transactions support.
• Transparent access to jBASE data and dictionary files converted to Oracle, DB2 or MS SQL.
• Possibility to call C or Java code.
• Possibility to execute any jBASE, system or database enquiry command.
• Source code editor - JED (also capable of editing data files).
• Debugger.