Sets a variable to a value. This allows the name of the variable to be immediately evaluated at run time.
Category: | Macro Variable |
Returned data type: | Boolean |
VARSET(variablename, value)
variablename
specifies the name of a variable that is to receive the value. variablename can be specified as a string
Note: The string value of this parameter is used to figure out which variable to alter.
value
specifies the value to set to macroname; value can have a data type of real, integer, string, date, or Boolean
The function return TRUE if it successfully completes. Otherwise, it is set to FALSE.
string myvar1
string myvar2
string myvar3
integer x
for x = 1 to 3
varset("myvar" & x, "value is " & x)
// This should result in each string variable receiving
// a different value as assigned.