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# ins~getscalar

Purpose
Create an ins~entityfetch record for fetching a scalar entity.
Synopsis
`function getscalar(entity:text, dst:any):ins~entityfetch`
Arguments

entity | The name of the entity to fetch
dst | A reference to a variable that will be populated by the value of the entity. May be a reference to a scalar or an array.

Return value
A value that can be passed to ins~getscendata to read the entity into the given reference.
Example

    declarations
      SCENARIO_ID='2926e9a1-9568-4116-84ed-2e75190bc651'
      maxprofit: real
    end-declarations
    ins~getscendata(SCENARIO_ID, [ ins~getscalar('maxProfit', ->maxprofit) ] )
    if ins~haserror then
      writeln_('Error: ',ins~getlasterror)
    else
      writeln('Maximum profit: ',maxprofit)
    end-if

Example of fetching a scalar entity into a variable reference.

    declarations
      SCENARIO_ID='2926e9a1-9568-4116-84ed-2e75190bc651'
      values: array(set of string) of real
    end-declarations
    ins~getscendata(SCENARIO_ID, [ ins~getscalar('maxProfit', values) ] )
    if ins~haserror then
      writeln_('Error: ',ins~getlasterror)
    else
      writeln('Maximum profit: ',values('maxProfit'))
    end-if

Example of fetching a scalar entity into an array cell.
Further information
1. The destination may be a reference to a string, text, integer, real or boolean, or an array of one of those types or any.
2. If the scalar type does not match the type of the destination reference, the value will be converted (e.g. a real type entity would be rounded down to be stored in an integer).
3. Where the destination is a reference to an array, it must have a single index set (of type string or constant text; the fetch will insert an array cell whose index is the entity name and value is the fetched value.
4. This function cannot fail; invalid parameter values will only cause an error when the returned value is passed to ins~getscendata.
Related topics
ins~getscalars ins~getscendata
Parent Topic Reading Scenario Data

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