Language Pyramid Context

Overview

B4P supports six basic data types for doing calculations in expressions and storing data in variables. However, tables store all data in text form, including numbers. Numerals written to tables are converted into numbers in text form, and numbers read are converted into numerals.

Strings, numerals and dates are also categorized in two subtypes each which are desribed in the following sections.

• Strings
  • Softquoted strings
  • Quoted strings
• Numerals
  • Numerals with preserved text representations
  • Plain numerals
• Dates, able to contain dates, times or both
  • Dates with preserved text representations
  • Plain dates
• Booleans
• Sets
  • They contain multiple elements of values of any data type, including nested sets. Empty sets (0 elements) are supported.
• Voids