topic Re: Programming language for Qlik Sense scripting in App Development

Programming language for Qlik Sense scripting

Nuckpio — Wed, 22 May 2019 09:25:46 GMT

Hi everybody !

I would like to know what language is used for Qlik sense scripting ? What languages are close to the one used by Qlik sense ?

I have to produce an intership report, and i need to close the gap between what i did in my internship and what i learned at school.

Can you please give me examples ?

Thank you for your help.

Re: Programming language for Qlik Sense scripting

simon_minifie — Wed, 22 May 2019 10:17:38 GMT

Hi Nukpoi,
Qlik scripting uses the Backus-Naur formalism or BNF code.
There's a write up on Qlik's help pages here:

https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense/April2019/Subsystems/Hub/Content/Sense_Hub/Scripting/script-syntax.htm#

Thanks,
Simon

Re: Programming language for Qlik Sense scripting

Nuckpio — Wed, 22 May 2019 11:21:31 GMT

Thank you for responding. I already saw about this, and I was looking for
programming languages that are describing also with BNF.
What languages are close to the qlik scripting language ? What languages
does BNF describe ?

Best regards.

Re: Programming language for Qlik Sense scripting

tresB — Wed, 22 May 2019 11:29:17 GMT

IMO, it is partially very close to SQL . If anything else has to be close to it, then may be VB script.

Re: Programming language for Qlik Sense scripting

Nuckpio — Wed, 22 May 2019 12:09:35 GMT

Thank you Tresesco,

That's what i was thinking in first place. I know that you can use SQL on the loading script and it clearly look like VB. I was wondering if it is close to C++ or C# or Java for example...

In your opinion, is Qlik language part of OOP (object oriented programming) languages?

Thanks.

Re: Programming language for Qlik Sense scripting

tresB — Wed, 22 May 2019 12:19:18 GMT

No, it's not OOPS