Assignment is the process of assigning the value of an expression to a variable.
The variable can be a simple variable, an array element, a dynamic array element, a substring, or all of the above.
variable = expression
Variable name is assigned the string “george”.
name = "george"
Variable result is assigned to the result of the arithmetic expression.
result = (unit.price * qty)
Variable line is assigned the result of the string expression.
line = result: " is the answer"
Adds the value of code as the last attribute of the dynamic array item.
item<-1> = code
Adds the value of code as the last value in an attribute of codes.
item<codes,-1> = code
Value fred, is assigned to the fifth element of the dimensioned array customer.array.
customer.array(5) = "fred"
Second subvalue in the second value in the first attribute of the string in item is replaced with the string “100”.
item<1,2,2> = "100"
Character positions 3 and 4 of string are replaced with the string “ca”.
string[3,2] = "ca"
Third and fourth character positions of the string found in the first subvalue in the second value in the first attribute of item is replaced with the string “ca”.
item<1,2,1>[3,2] = "ca"
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