Other Built-in Statements

Several more built-in statements are available. The following table contains statements that might be useful in your PDS scripts.

Statement	Description
`log "log-message"`	Writes a message to the Manager log (in prejob or postjob blocks) or the Engine log (in pretask, task, or posttask blocks.)
`env (variable)`	Returns the value of the specified environment variable. If the variable is a string literal, it must be enclosed in quotes. An empty string is returned for nonexistent variables
`throw "message"`	Causes the task to fail, and throws an exception. The message is displayed on the Driver and written into the Driver log. This cannot be used in the posttask block.

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