Now, we'll review AL operators grouped by category. Depending on the data types we are using with a particular operator, we may need to know the type conversion rules by defining the allowed combinations of operator and data types for an expression. The Business Central docs provides good information on type conversion rules. Search for the phrase type Conversion to learn more.
Before we review the operators that can be categorized, let's discuss some operators that don't fit well into any of the categories. These include the following:
Explanations regarding the use of the operator symbols in the preceding table are as follows:
- The symbol represented by a single dot or period doesn't have a given name in the Business Central documentation, so we'll call it the member symbol or dot operator (as it is referred to in the MSDN Visual Basic Developer documentation). It indicates that a field is a member of a table (TableName.FieldName), a control...