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Description
Assign does two operations in one command: assign the numeric expression to a numeric variable and return the calculated expression.
Syntax
n = Assign(NumericExpression, NumericVariable)
Returns
Number.
Returned value is the value calculated from the NumericExpression and assigned to NumericVariable
Parameters
Name |
Type |
Optional |
Meaning |
NumericExpression |
Number |
No |
Any numeric expression |
NumericVariable |
Variable |
No |
Any scalar numeric 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 numeric expression to a variable
2.test the variable data
With assign programmer can just do it in one go
Restrictions
See also
Examples