Operators and Keywords

This page covers the symbols and reserved words the tokenizer already understands.

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Operators and Punctuation

• Arithmetic: +, -, *, /, ^
• Comparison: =, <>, <, <=, >, >=
• Grouping and access: (, ), [, ], ., \
• Separators: , and :

• : is currently used for label statements.
• [ and ] are used for index expressions.
• ( and ) are used for grouping, calls, parameter lists, and Dim dimensions.
• . and \ are both used for member access.

Keywords

These words are recognized as keywords by the tokenizer.

• And
• As
• Case
• Const
• Dim
• Do
• Else
• ElseIf
• End
• Enum
• Field
• For
• Function
• Goto
• Import
• If
• Loop
• Mod
• New
• Next
• Not
• Or
• Repeat
• Rem
• Return
• Select
• Step
• Sub
• Then
• To
• Type
• Until
• Wend
• While

Some of these only make sense as part of larger statements, not on their own.

Type, Field, and New are used by the user-defined type system.