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There are two main methods for describing a suite to the ecflow ecFlow server. The first is to write a text definition file which is then loaded to the server. The grammar of this text definition file is described here Definition file Grammar . This grammar does not support conditional statements (such as if,while,for) nor the ability to define functions. However, the text definition file can be written using any language which in itself supports conditional statements. The language is similar to that offered by SMS/CDP (previously used at ECMWF) and as such may be an appropriate migration path for some.
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