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11. LET STATEMENT

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11.1 General Description

A let-statement provides for the assignment of the value of an expression to a variable. The general syntactic form of the let-statement shall be LET variable = expression

Syntax


            1. let-statement            = numeric-let-statement / string-let-statement
            2. numeric-let-statement    = LET numeric-variable equals-sign numeric-expre ssion
            3. string-let-statement     = LET string-variable equals-sign string-expression

11.3 Examples


        LET P = 3.14159
        LET A(X,3) = SIN(X)*Y + 1
        LET A$ = "ABC"
        LET A$ = B$

11.4 Semantics

The expression is evaluated (see 8) and its value is assigned to the variable to the left of the equals sign.

11.5 Exceptions

A string datum contains too many characters (fatal).

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