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Table of Contents

• OpenSTA Script Control Language (SCL) Reference
  • Document Conventions
  • General Rules
    • Comments
    • Whitespace
    • Continuation Lines
    • Integer Values
    • Character Strings
    • Character Representation
    • Case Sensitivity
    • Command Character
    • Control Character
    • OpenSTA Datanames
    • Symbols
    • Variables
    • Script Processing
    • Maximum Values in Scripts
    • Including Text from Other Source Files
  • ENVIRONMENT Section
    • DESCRIPTION Command
    • MODE HTTP Command
    • WAIT UNIT Command
  • DEFINITIONS Section
    • INTEGER Command
    • CHARACTER Command
    • CONSTANT Command
    • TIMER Command
    • Variable Arrays
    • Variable Values
    • Variable Options
      • Variable Scope Options
      • Variable Random Options
      • Variable File Option
  • CODE Section
    • Labels
    • Code Section Commands
      • Variable Manipulation Commands
        • SET Command
          • ~LENGTH Integer Function
          • ~LOCATE Integer Function
          • ~EXTRACT Character Function
          • ~LEFTSTR Character Function
          • ~RIGHTSTR Character Function
          • ~LTRIM Character Function
          • ~RTRIM Character Function
        • CONVERT Command
        • FORMAT Command
        • LOAD Commands
        • GENERATE Command
        • NEXT Command
        • RESET Command
      • Flow Control Commands
        • ENTRY Command
        • CALL SCRIPT Command
        • IF Command
        • DO Command
        • GOTO Command
        • ON ERROR Command
        • CANCEL ON Command
        • WAIT Command
        • SUBROUTINE Command
        • RETURN Command
        • END SUBROUTINE Command
        • CALL Command
        • DETACH Command
        • EXIT Command
      • Logging and Results Commands
        • LOG Command
        • NOTE Command
        • TRACE Command
        • REPORT Command
        • HISTORY Command
        • START TIMER Command
        • END TIMER Command
      • Inter-Script Synchronization Commands
        • ACQUIRE MUTEX Command
        • RELEASE MUTEX Command
        • SET SEMAPHORE Command
        • CLEAR SEMAPHORE Command
        • WAIT FOR SEMAPHORE Command
      • HTTP Commands
        • GET Command
        • HEAD Command
        • POST Command
        • LOAD RESPONSE_INFO BODY Command
        • Identifiers used in LOAD RESPONSE_INFO BODY
        • LOAD RESPONSE_INFO HEADER Command
        • CONNECT Command
        • DISCONNECT Command
        • SYNCHRONIZE REQUESTS Command
        • BUILD AUTHENTICATION BLOB Command
      • Formal Test Case Commands
        • START TEST-CASE Command
        • PASS TEST-CASE Command
        • FAIL TEST-CASE Command
        • END TEST-CASE Command
• Broken & Useless SCL Features
  • Conditional Compilation
  • File Handling Commands