With a Progress Openedge ABL (ChUI) program what is the most efficient method to determine run...

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I am trying to determine the run time of a number of programs with a Progress Openedge ABL character based application. Initially, I started with using the etime function and logging it out as a message. However, that is very tedious as you have to reset etime within each respective block.

Shortly after this I was alerted to a method of outputting the a number of details to a custom log file. This included STRING(NOW). This helps narrow down things and makes accessing/recording the time stamps much more manageable. However, I'm curious if there's a native "method" to find the run time of each block of code that isn't so arduous?

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