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! ;THE MODIFIED BNF SYNTAX DESCRIBED IN TERMS OF ITSELF .
! 
! BNFDEFINITION      = METASYMBOL "="  BNFCOMPONENT  [ COMMENT ] "." .
! 
! BNFCOMPONENT       = ( TERMINAL l
!                      METASYMBOL l
!                      OR l
!                      AND l
!                      OPTION l
!                      LIST l
!                      REPEAT l
!                      ACTION ) .
! 
! TERMINAL           = """ *ASCIICHARACTER """ ;TERMINAL CHARACTER STRING .
! 
! METASYMBOL         = [ *LETTER  "-" ] *LETTER  ;AN ELEMENT
!                      OF THE SYNTAX DEFINED BY THE SYNTAX OR BY A LEXICAL
!                      PROCESS .
! 
! OR                 = "(" BNFCOMPONENT *[ "l" BNFCOMPONENT ] ")" 
!                      ;ONLY ONE OF THE BNFCOMPONENTS IS REQUIRED .
! 
! AND                = BNFCOMPONENT *[ BNFCOMPONENT ] ;ALL OF THE
!                      BNFCOMPONENTS ARE REQUIRED .
! 
! OPTION             = "[" BNFCOMPONENT "]" ;USE OF THE BNFCOMPONENT IS
!                      OPTIONAL .
! 
! LIST               = "+" BNFCOMPONENT ;BNFCOMPONENTS SEPERATED BY
!                      COMMAS .
! 
! REPEAT             = "*" BNFCOMPONENT ;BNFCOMPONENTS NOT SEPERATED BY
!                      COMMAS .
! 
! ACTION             = "%" ACTIONNAME "%" ;ACTION TO BE PERFORMED WHEN ENCOUNTERED .
! 
! COMMENT            = ";" *ASCIICHARACTER .
! 
! ;*****************************************************************************************************************
! 

! ;CHECKS THAT THE FORMAT STATEMENT CONFORMS TO THE SYNTAX WHICH FOLLOWS.
! 
! FORMATSPEC        = LPAREN  [ FDGROUP ] RPAREN LINEND .
! 
! FDGROUP           = +( FIELDDESCRIPTOR [ *SLASH ] ) .
! 
! FIELDDESCRIPTOR   = ( ( PLUS l MINUS ) CONST PCHAR [ CONST ] TWODESCRIPTOR l
!                     CONST ( PCHAR [ CONST ] TWODESCRIPTOR l
!                     TWODESCRIPTOR l ONEDESCRIPTOR l XCHAR l LPAREN  FDGROUP RPAREN )  l
!                     TWODESCRIPTOR l ONEDESCRIPTOR l TCHAR CONST l DOLLAR l SLASH l
!                     LITSTRING l XCHAR l LPAREN  FDGROUP RPAREN ) .
! 
! TWODESCRIPTOR     = ( FCHAR l ECHAR l DCHAR l GCHAR ) [ CONST [ PERIOD CONST ] ] . 
! 
! ONEDESCRIPTOR     = ( ICHAR l LCHAR l OCHAR l ACHAR l RCHAR ) [ CONST ] .
! 
! 

!THE FOLLOWING TABLES WERE PRODUCED BY THE BLISS MODULE "BUILD.BLI"

BIND

VECTOR	METANAME= IF NOT LEFTBUILD THEN 0 ELSE PLIT(
%1%	PLIT'FORMATSPEC',
%2%	PLIT'LPAREN',
%3%	PLIT'FDGROUP',
%4%	PLIT'RPAREN',
%5%	PLIT'LINEND',
%6%	PLIT'FIELDDESCRIPTOR',
%7%	PLIT'SLASH',
%8%	PLIT'PLUS',
%9%	PLIT'MINUS',
%10%	PLIT'CON