Decrement

Purpose

Decrement memory variable by one

Syntax

-- <memvar>

See Also

++, AVERAGE, COUNT, FOR, PARAMETERS, PRIVATE, PUBLIC, STORE, SUM

Description

The -- command is used to automatically decrement a previously declared numeric memory variable by one. The -- command must be placed at the beginning of the command line.

Example

i=100
do while i > 0
    --i
enddo