The following are some examples in which the versatility of Power Syntax is demonstrated. They become steadily more complex in the latter examples.

All arguments passed to subroutines should be enclosed in quotations, for example Plane 1 must be passed as "Plane 1", and Minimum Face Angle should be entered as "Minimum Face Angle". Any legal CFX Command Language characters that are illegal in Perl need to be enclosed in quotation marks.