TEXT

TEXT is one of the three kinds of value in ITP. This means that a variable can be declared as a TEXT. It also means that a database field value, as retrieved by ITP, can be of type TEXT.

Text values contain zero, one or more characters. The default value of a TEXT is an empty text (""). Within ITP it is not possible to assign a text to a NUMBER or BOOL variable. There is a standard function that can be used to convert a text to a number. Refer to text_to_number for more information. Special characters must be escaped in a TEXT value with a slash (/). Refer to Escape character in TEXT for details.