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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

 

Assign

 

Examples

 

 

 

 

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