NAME¶

qore - Interpreter for the Qore Programming Language

SYNOPSIS¶

qore [options(s)]... [program file]

COPYRIGHT¶

Qore is Copyright (C) 2003 - 2023 David Nichols.

DESCRIPTION¶

Qore is a modular, multi-threaded, SQL-integrated weakly-typed scripting language with procedural and object-oriented features, powerful and easy-to-use data types, structures, and operators, a clean and easy-to-lean/read syntax.

OPTIONS¶

When qore is invoked it interprets the following options:

-d, --debug=arg

sets debugging level (higher number = more output). Only available with debug builds.

-t, --trace

turns on function tracing. Only available with debug builds.

-h, --help

shows the help text.

-c, --charset=arg

sets default character set encoding.

-e, --exec=arg

allows a qore program to be specified on the command-line.

-x, --exec-class[=arg]

instantiate a class with the same name as the file name, override class name with the optional argument. Also sets --no-top-level for more pure object-oriented coding.

-m, --show-module-errors

shows any errors related to qore module loading and/or initilization.

--show-charsets

displays the list of known character sets.

--show-aliases

displays the list of character sets aliases.

-V, --version

shows version information for the invoked instance of qore on the standard output and exits successfully.

PARSE OPTIONS¶

Parse options interpreted by qore:

-G, --no-global-vars

makes global variable definitions illegal

-S, --no-subroutine-def

makes subroutine definitions illegal

-T, --no-threads

makes thread operations illegal

-L, --no-top-level

makes top-level statements illegal

-C, --no-class-defs

makes class definitions illegal

-D, --no-namespace-defs

makes namespace declarations illegal

-E, --no-external-process

makes access to external processes illegal

-P, --no-process-control

makes process control illegal (fork(), exit(), etc)

-F, --no-constant-defs

makes constant definitions illegal

-N, --no-new

makes using the "new" operator illegal

-I, --no-child-restrictions

do not restrict subprograms' parse options

-O, --require-our

requires global variables to be declared with "our"

FILES¶

/usr/bin/qore

The qore executable

AUTHORS¶

David Nichols (qore)
david@qore.org

Marian Bonda (man page)
marian_bonda@users.sourceforge.net

BUG REPORTS¶

If you find a bug in qore, you should report it. But first, you should make sure that it really is a bug, and that it appears in the latest version of qore. The latest version is always available at http://qore.org/.

ALL bug reports should include:

The version number of qore

The hardware and operating system

The compiler used to compile

A description of the bug behaviour

A short script or `recipe' which exercises the bug

Comments and bug reports concerning this manual page should be directed to marian_bonda@users.sourceforge.net.