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Order of Execution

Multiple operations in a single instruction are executed from left to right in the following priority sequence:

• operations within parentheses
• multiplications
• divisions
• additions
• subtractions

Example:

Consider the following formula and the instruction to execute it for each record:

CPU TIME
WORK FIELD = -----------------------      * 100
              CPU TIME + OVRHD TIME
COMPUTE WORK FIELD(.2) = (CPU TIME / (CPU TIME + OVRHD TIME)) * 100

CA JARS Wizard carries out this instruction as though it was written as several instructions in the following sequence:

COMPUTE WORK FIELD(.2)  =  CPU TIME + OVRHD TIME,
        WORK FIELD  =  CPU TIME / WORK FIELD,
        WORK FIELD  =  WORK FIELD * 100