VALSET Call

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VALSET Call

performs indirect assignment

CALL VALSET( char-scalar, argument);

The inputs to the VALSET subroutine are as follows:

char-scalar: is a character scalar containing the name of a matrix.
argument: is a value to which the matrix is set.

The VALSET subroutine expects a single character string argument containing the name of a matrix. It looks up the matrix and moves the value of the second argument to this matrix. For example, the following statements find that the value of the argument B is A and then assign the value 99 to A, the indirect result:

   b="A";
   call valset(b,99);

The previous value of the indirect result is freed. The following statement sets B to 99, but the value of A is unaffected by this statement:

   b=99;

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