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LET VAR = EXP
Function
Evaluate an expression and assign the result to a variable.
Syntax
LET var = expr
-or-
var = expr
var - Variable to which the result of expr should be assigned.
expr - Any valid PPL expression.
Remarks
The LET statement supports modes of operation: explicit and implicit.
An explicit LET statement always includes all of the parts in the first
example above (the LET keyword, the variable, the equal sign, and the
expression). An implicit LET statement does not need the LET keyword;
the format (var = expr) is sufficient. However, the implicit form will
not always work.
For example, if you had a variable named PRINT (which is also a
statement name) you could not use PRINT = expr; PPL expects the first
word on a line to be a statement name, and if it isn't, it is an
implicit LET statement. Since PPL would find the PRINT statement first
it would try to process the rest of the line as a PRINT statement. This
is easily avoided by using the LET keyword and making it an explicit LET
statement (LET PRINT = expr).
Examples
INTEGER i
STRING s
GETUSER
LET U_PWD = "NEWPWD"
LET s = "This is a string"
LET i = 7*9+9*7
PUTUSER
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