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val - Input Value

Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54

Syntax

... ( ... val = text ...  ) ...

Effect

text passes the main argument to be processed by the function. text is an enhanced character-like expression position. Functional method calls whose return value is convertible to the type string can also be specified.

If a character-like data object with a fixed length is specified, any trailing blanks are ignored. Non-character-like return values are converted to the data type string.