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General DDDL Syntax Options › Copying and Editing Entity Occurrences

Copying and Editing Entity Occurrences

The DDDL compiler syntax includes three clauses that are used to manipulate entity-occurrence definitions, as shown in the following table. Each of the clauses is described separately in this section.

Clause

What it does

SAME AS

Copies the entire definition associated with an existing entity occurrence into the object entity-occurrence definition

COPY

Copies selected options from an existing entity occurrence into the object entity-occurrence definition

EDIT

Modifies lines in comment text and module source by performing add, replace, or delete functions, as specified