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Introduction

This chapter takes you step by step through the process of writing a simple CA Culprit report. This report, like all the sample reports in this manual, can be used as a report model for your documents or as a hands-on exercise.

Any terms used in Volume I of this manual that are not discussed in--Heading SECT 1--are defined within the context of the subject matter under discussion.

For our first report we will create the listing of employee names and salaries shown in the report below, created with just five lines of code:

The Report

                                JUNE      BLOOMER                                          15,000.00
                                EDWARD    HUTTON                                           44,000.00
                                RUPERT    JENSON                                           82,000.00
                                MARIANNE  KIMBALL                                          45,000.00
                                DORIS     KING                                             14,500.00
                                BRIAN     NICEMAN                                          14,000.00
                                HERBERT   CRANE                                            75,000.00
                                JANE      FERNDALE                                         22,500.00
                                KATHERINE O'HEARN                                          42,500.00
                                RALPH     TYRO                                             20,000.00
                                HENRIETTA HENDON                                          240,000.00
                                THEMIS    PAPAZEUS                                        100,000.00
                                JOHN      RUPEE                                            80,000.00
                                ROBBY     WILDER                                           90,000.00

                                                                                        2,522,500.00