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VA FileMan stores the data of every file descendent from a single M global array (or from a node of a global array). When the routines, internally and externally, make reference to a file in a global notation, FileMan expects the following format:
| ^GLOBAL( | for an entire global |
| ^GLOBAL(X,Y, | for a subtree of a global |
NOTE: A global notation must terminate with an open parenthesis (() or a comma (,). Indirection (@) is always used by VA FileMan routines when referring to data files.
For the most part, FileMan packs data into subscripts using the up-arrow (^) character as the $PIECE delimiter. You refer to a data element as being stored in the nth ^-piece of a global node.
Reviewed/Updated: March 10, 2007