SET Command

Material prepared from M Programming Book [WALTERS1997] (Page 38-39, 75-78) and GT.M Programmer’s Guide

Description

S[ET] variable=expression

Examples

SET NAME="Thomas Jefferson"

Notes

SET assigns the value of the expression to the variable, creating it if it does not exist.

SET can also be used to set multiple variables to the same value.

SET (X,Y,Z)=12

Multiple SET commands can be combined into one using commas.

SET X=5,Y=X+5,Z=Y-1 Notice that later parts of the SET command can reference variables created in the earlier parts.