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ID: 17065, Building UDF Libraries
This article is both a quick introduction to writing simple User Defined Functions (UDFs) for InterBase and a fairly complete reference guide to UDF programming techniques.
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This article is both a quick introduction to writing simple User Defined Functions (UDFs) for InterBase and a fairly complete reference guide to UDF programming techniques. Accordingly, it is divided into two sections.
In the first section, the reader will learn how to quickly create simple UDFs in Delphi. Since UDFs, in general, should be simple, this section may be all that is necessary for most InterBase users. In the second section, we’ll explore the reasons behind the suggestions in the first section.
What is a UDF? A user defined function (UDF) in InterBase is merely a function written in any programming language that is compiled into a shared library. Under Windows platforms, shared libraries are commonly referred to as dynamic link libraries (DLL's). This simple use of shared libraries provides the developer with a large amount of power and flexibility. Virtually any function that can be exposed through a DLL can be used by InterBase. This comment, however, should be taken with a grain of salt — the intent of a UDF is to perform some small operation that is not available in SQL or InterBase’s stored procedure language.
An example of a UDF is
function Modulo (Numerator, Denominator: Integer): Integer
Divide Numerator by Denominator and return the remainder.
This function is essential in many routines, but it is not available in InterBase’s DSQL language.
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