EVALUATE()

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Class

Expressions and Type Conversion


Purpose

Function to evaluate a character expression and return the result


Syntax

EVALUATE(<expC>)


See Also

BETWEEN(), CHROVERLAP(), EMPTY(), EXPRCHECK(), INLIST(), ISALPHA(), ISBLANK(), ISDIGIT(), TYPE()


Description

The EVALUATE() function the result of an expresion specified as a character expression <expC>. The <expC> can contain any valid expression of any data type enclosed in string delimiters.


Example

use demo
? evaluate("customer.last_name")
Siegel
? evaluate("1+1")
2
m_var = "DATE() > {01/01/2001}"
? evaluate(m_var)
.T.


Products

Recital Database Server, Recital Mirage Server, Recital Terminal Developer