ScriptBasic Features

[support]

• Open source LGPL project
• Multi-platform (Windows, Linux, Unix, OSX, ...)
• Basic command line interpreter, multi-threaded HTTP application server and application script engine embedding
• Extension module API (CGI, MySQL, ODBC, Berkeley DB, GTK, Curl, ...)
• Basic interpreter - text and binary source file with optional caching
• Standalone executables - binds interpreter to program (win/*nix)
• Output programs as C source to be linked with ScriptBasic runtime library and user modules
• Name space support
• Relaxed / auto variable typing (forget DIM and think undef)
• TYPE, ISARRAY, ISSTRING, ISINTEGER, ISREAL, ISNUMERIC, ISDEF, ISUNDEF, ISEMPTY
• Associative arrays (reference elements by name - MySQL & ODBC modules assign columns to named arrays)
• Standard branching syntax (GOTO, GOSUB/RETURN, FOR/NEXT, DO/WHILE/UNTIL, REPEAT/UNTIL, CALL)
• Multi-function IO directives ([liNE] INPUT, PRINT, OPEN - files, ports, standard IO)
• Time/Date formatting and math
• Extended string functions (REPLACE, SPLIT, SPLITA)

Syntax by example