Editing SCORE (software) (section)

=== Conditional editing ===

With version 4, conditional editing was included in the main program.  This allowed users to write conditional statements in a language similar to [[BASIC]].<ref name="SCOR4"/>  Prior to this it had only been possible by using third party utilities: ScorEdit from Ararat Software,<ref name=scoredit>{{cite web |last1=Gibson |first1=Stephen |title=ScorEdit conditional editor |url=https://musicsoftwareonline.co.uk/scoredit-3-5-digital-download.html |website=New Notations London |publisher=Ararat Software |accessdate=28 December 2019}}</ref> and EDITSCOR from Brodhead Music Typography.<ref>{{cite web archived |last1=Brodhead |first1=Thomas |title=EDITSCOR (ES.EXE) |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005055148/https://bmt-systems.com/score/es.htm |website=Brodhead Music Typography |archive-date=5 October 2023}}</ref>

For example,

{{code|2=basic|1=IF P3>100 THEN P3=P3-20}} will move all items on all staves which are beyond position 100 ({{code|P3>100}}), 20 steps to the left ({{code|P3-20}}).

{{code|2=basic|1=IF (P1=1 AND P2<4) OR (P1=2 AND P2>=6) THEN DEL}} will delete all notes ({{code|1=P1=1}}) on staves lower than 4 ({{code|1=P2<4}}) and all rests ({{code|1=P1=2}}) on staves greater than or equal to 6 ({{code|1=P2>=6}}).

{{code|2=basic|1=IF (P1=1 AND P2>3 AND MOD(P9,10)<>0) OR (P1=1 AND P2=1 AND P3>100) THEN P11=5, P6=6}} If notes ({{code|1=P1=1}}) are on a staff above 3 ({{code|1=P2>3}}) and have tails (the result of P9 [[modulo operation|MOD]] 10 is not 0), or notes ({{code|1=P1=1}}) are on staff 1 ({{code|1=P2=1}}) and to the right of position 100 ({{code|1=P3>100}}), then the notes will be given an accent ({{code|1=P11=5}}) and an X-shaped notehead ({{code|1=P6=6}}).

Some functionality was limited in the implementation, such as nested parentheses being unsupported (except for use with MOD()), being unable to edit text, being unable to cross-compare and edit different items simultaneously, and being unable to read macros in sequence from a source file. Users wishing to employ these methods had to use the third party utilities described earlier.

WinScore allowed macros to be read in sequence from source files, but did not add any more functions.<ref name="WinScore"/>