Headers and footers

header statement footer statement A header is text printed at the top of each page of a report. A footer is text printed at the bottom of each page of a report. They are printed if, and only if, the report height parameter is non-zero and the header (or footer) block has been `executed'. Following are definitions of the "header" and "footer" blocks.

 <"header"
<line> <position> <text_string>
<line> <position> <variable> <format>
        &vellip#vdots;
"end" 〈"header"〉 and  <"footer"
<line> <position> <text_string>
<line> <position> <variable> <format>
        &vellip#vdots;
"end" 〈"footer"〉 <Line>, <position>, and <format> have the same meaning as in the print blocks.

set!report height@"report height" The report height (see pg. [*]) refers to a number of lines of "print"ed lines. It does not include header or footer text.


This report program 

report
  header
    1 1 '  Id'
    1 10 Name
    1 60 'Page: '
    1 66 page_number i5
    2 1 ' '
  end header
 
  select from techs where position = 'Tech 1'
    print
      1 1 id     i4
      1 10 name  a20
    end print
    mid = id
      print
        2 5 'symbol    date      resistivity'
        3 5 '------    ----      -----------'
      end print
    select from measures where id = mid sort by symbol
      print
        1 5 symbol a8
        1 15 m_date 'yy/mm/dd'
        1 25 resistivity f6.2
      end print
    end select
    print
      1 1 ' '
    end print
  end select
end report


produces the following report

==29pc

   Id     Name                                              Page:     1
 
    5     John Jones
 
     symbol   date      resistivity
     ------   ----      -----------
     Cu        88/01/21   11.90
     Cu        88/01/21   12.40
     Fe        88/03/04   19.40
 
   35     Joe Jackson
 
     symbol   date      resistivity
     ------   ----      -----------
     Al        88/02/10   13.00
     Al        88/02/10   14.30
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