About
BREAK specifies where changes occur in a report and the formatting action to perform, such as:
- suppressing display of duplicate values for a given column
- skipping a line each time a given column value changes
- printing computed figures each time a given column value changes or at the end of the report (in combination with compute)
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Syntax
BRE[AK] [ON report_element [action [action]]] ...
where:
- report_element has the following syntax:
{column | expression | ROW | REPORT}
- action has the following syntax:
[SKI[P] n | [SKI[P]] PAGE] [NODUP[LICATES] | DUP[LICATES]]
Example
How to
List all BREAKS
Enter BREAK with no clauses to list the current BREAK definition.
Suppress all Breaks
See clear
CLEAR BREAKS
breaks cleared