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Description
Assign does two operations in one command: assign a string expression to a string value and return calculated expression.
Syntax
s = Assign$(StringExpression, StringVariable)
Returns
String.
Returned value is the value calculated from the StringExpression and assigned to StringVariable
Parameters
Name |
Type |
Optional |
Meaning |
StringExpression |
Number |
No |
Any string expression |
StringVariable |
Variable |
No |
Any scalar string variable |
Remarks
Assign can be useful when programmer needs to assign a value to variable but at the same time test the result.
Usually programmer needs to perform two operations:
1.assigning the value from the string expression to a variable
2.test the variable data
With assign programmer can just do it in one go
Restrictions
See also
Examples