1. This example illustrates the use of the .if statement to take different actions based on the current condition of the Report-Writer environment. It tests the current character position, and starts a new line if the current position is past the end of a line:

2. This example tests the data and prints different things, depending on the value of some of the report data:

3. This example tests a column value and uses .if statements to translate a numeric code number from the database to a text string for the report, and to selectively print column values accordingly. Notice that both the conditional expression and the .then statements reference column names that are delimited identifiers.