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C/AL

C/AL - Programming language

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C/AL is a programming language created in 1987 by Michael Nielsen.

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C/AL (Client/server Application Language) is the programming language used within C/SIDE the Client/Server Integrated Development Environment in Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Formerly known as Navision Attain). C/AL is a Database specific programming language, and is primarily used for retrieving, inserting and modifying records in a Navision database. C/AL resembles the Pascal language on which it is based. Read more on Wikipedia...


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Item.RESET; Item.SETRANGE("Blocked",TRUE); IF Item.FINDSET THEN REPEAT IF Item."Profit %" < 20 THEN BEGIN Item."Profit %" := 20; Item.MODIFY(TRUE); END; UNTIL Item.NEXT = 0; Item.MODIFYALL("Blocked",FALSE);

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Booleans ✓ TRUE FALSE

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