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In OutSystems you can use the operators presented below.

Numeric

+, -, *, /

Unary minus

Yields the negation of its numeric operand.

The following are the data types allowed for unary minus (-) operator:

- (Unary minus) Text Long Integer Integer Decimal Boolean Date Time Date Time
No Yes Yes Yes No No No No

Arithmetic operators /, -, *

Perform common arithmetic operations.

The following are the data types allowed for arithmetic operators /, -, *:

/, *, - Text Long Integer Integer Decimal Boolean Date Time Date Time
Text No No No No No No No No
Long Integer No Yes(a) Yes(a) Yes(a) No No No No
Integer No Yes(a) Yes(a) Yes(a) No No No No
Decimal No Yes(a) Yes(a) Yes No No No No
Boolean No No No No No No No No
DateTime No No No No No No No No
Date No No No No No No No No
Time No No No No No No No No

(a) The result of a division operation is always cast as a Decimal.

Arithmetic operator +

Performs sum operation. When one of the operands is Text, the other operand is cast to Text, and performs the concatenate operation.

The following are the data types allowed for arithmetic operator +:

+ Text Long Integer Integer Decimal Boolean DateTime Date Time
Text Yes Yes(a) Yes(a) Yes(a) Yes(a) Yes(a) Yes(a) Yes(a)
Long Integer Yes(a) Yes Yes Yes No No No No
Integer Yes(a) Yes Yes Yes No No No No
Decimal Yes(a) Yes Yes Yes No No No No
Boolean Yes(a) No No No No No No No
DateTime Yes(a) No No No No No No No
Date Yes(a) No No No No No No No
Time Yes(a) No No No No No No No
(a) The non-text side is cast to Text and then concatenated.

Logical and Boolean

and, or, not, =, <, >, <>, <=, >=

AND

Performs the logical 'AND' operation. Allows only Boolean type operands.

OR

Performs the logical 'OR' operation. Allows only Boolean type operands.

Unary NOT

Performs the logical 'NOT' operation. Allows only Boolean type operands.

Comparison operators <, >, <=, >=

Common comparison operations. When one of the operands is Text, the other operand is converted to Text, and it performs the string comparison operation.

The following are the data types allowed for comparison operators:

<, >, <=, >= Text Integer Long Integer Decimal Boolean Date Time Date Time Email Phone Number Currency Binary Data
Text Yes Yes(a) Yes(a) Yes(a) Yes(a) Yes(a) Yes(a) Yes(a) Yes(a) Yes(a) No No
Integer Yes(a) Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No Yes(c) No
Long Integer Yes(a) Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No Yes(c) No
Decimal Yes(a) Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No Yes(c) No
Boolean Yes(a) No No No No No No No No No No No
Date Time Yes(a) No No No No Yes No No No No No No Date
Time Yes(a) No No No No No No Yes No No No No
Email Yes(a) No No No No No No No Yes Yes(b) No No
Phone Number Yes(a) No No No No No No No Yes(b) Yes No No
Currency No Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No Yes No
Binary Data No No No No No No No No No No No No
(a) The non-text side is converted to Text and the length of both texts
are compared.

(b) Both variables are converted to Text and the their length is compared.

(c) The Currency operand is converted to Integer data type and then compared.

Equality operators =, <>

Performs equality operations. When one of the operands is Text, the other operand is converted to Text, and it performs the string comparison operation.

The following are the data types allowed for equality operators:

=, <> Text Integer Long Integer Decimal Boolean Date Time Date Time Email Phone Number Currency Binary Data Entity / Structure / Record Integer Identifier Text Identifier
Text Yes Yes(a) Yes(a) Yes(a) Yes(a) Yes(a) Yes(a) Yes(a) Yes(a) Yes(a) Yes(a) No No No No
Integer Yes(a) Yes Yes Yes No No No No Yes* Yes* Yes* No No No No
Long Integer Yes(a) Yes Yes Yes No No No No Yes* Yes* Yes* No No No No
Decimal Yes(a) Yes Yes Yes No No No No Yes* Yes* Yes* No No No No
Boolean Yes(a) No No No Yes No No No No No No No No No No
Date Time Yes(a) No No No No Yes Yes* Yes* Yes* Yes* No No No No No
Date Yes(a) No No No No Yes* Yes No Yes* Yes* No No No No No
Time Yes(a) No No No No Yes* No Yes Yes* Yes* No No No No No
Email Yes(a) Yes* Yes* Yes* No Yes* Yes* Yes* Yes Yes* No No No No No
Phone Number Yes(a) Yes* Yes* Yes* No Yes* Yes* Yes* Yes* Yes Yes* No No No No
Currency Yes(a) Yes* Yes* Yes* No No No No No Yes* Yes No No No No
Binary Data No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No
Entity / Structure / Record No No No No No No No No No No No No Yes(b) No No
Integer Identifier No No No No No No No No No No No No No Yes(c) No
Text Identifier No No No No No No No No No No No No No No Yes(c)
(a) The non-text side is converted to Text and then compared.

(b) Only possible if both operands are of the same type, then, compare the value of the attributes.

(c) Identifiers of different entities can be compared but a warning is issued.

*Equality between Different Types:

Type of Operand 1 Type of Operand 2 Result
Date Date Time Converts Date Time operand type to Date type by dropping the time component.
Date Time Date Converts Date operand type to Date Time type by adding the time component (#00:00:00#).
Time or Date Time Time or Date Time Converts Time operand type to Date Time type by adding the date component (#01-01-1900#).
Currency Integer, Long Integer, or Decimal Converts the Currency variable to Integer data type.
Email or Phone Number Integer, Long Integer, or Decimal Converts Decimal, Long Integer or Integer operand type to Text.
Email Phone Number Converts both operands to Text.
Date Time, Date, or Time Email or Phone Number Converts both operands to Text.
Currency Phone Number Converts both operands to Text.

Like

This operator is only valid in the Filter Condition Editor of an aggregate and allows you to compare results. It has the same semantic as the LIKE keyword in SQL. You can use the LIKE operator to compare with an expression. But the advantage of LIKE is the fact that it allows you to use the wildcard character % that represents one or more characters.

For example, if you want to select the Identifier for every Customer that contains "James" in its name, in any position, the following filter condition allows you to get this information:

name LIKE '%James%'

The following are the data types allowed for LIKE operator:

LIKE Text Integer Decimal Boolean DateTime Date Time
Text Yes (a) (a) (a) (a) (a) (a)
Integer (a) No No No No No No
Decimal (a) No No No No No No
Boolean (a) No No No No No No
DateTime (a) No No No No No No
Date (a) No No No No No No
Time (a) No No No No No No
(a) The non-text side is cast to Text and then compared.

Indexer Declaration

This operator is used to access a specific element of a list. In OutSystems, index (position) starts with zero; to access the first record, you have to type the expression as follows:

MyRecordList[0]

When you try to access an index that does not exist, the following runtime error is raised: "Index n is out of range"

Since a record can be a sequence of Entities and/or Structures, you can access to a specific Entity or Structure of a specified record:

MyRecordList[0].&lt;entity name | structure name&gt;

You can use an expression inside the indexer operator as long as it returns an integer value. This includes the use of User Functions.

MyRecordList[i-1].Customer.Name (i is an integer)

MyRecordList[EmployeeOfMonth()].Employee.Name (where EmployeeOfMonth is a User Function that returns an integer value)

Precedence of Operators

The next table presents the precedence of the operators, highest precedence first:

Operator Description
- Numeric negation
NOT Logical negation
/, * Multiplicative operators
-, + Additive operators.
<, >, <=, >= Relational operators
=, <> Equality operators
LIKE Similarity operator
AND Logical AND
OR Logical OR
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