What is the use of EVALUATE statement?
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Answer / ravikumar
Evaluate statement is used to avoid nested if statments in
the program.
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Answer / hariharan mahadeek
Evaluate Statement used for case structure - When working
multiple options this statement will be handy. Instead of
using multiple IF statement.
Hariharan Mahadeek -
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Answer / edukulla
By useing of evaluate state ,we can reduce the syntax error
and reduce programing lenth,naturally error can redued
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Answer / suresh babu
You can use the EVALUATE statement instead of a series of
nested IF statements to test several conditions and specify
a different action for each. Thus we can use the EVALUATE
statement to implement a case structure or decision table.
We can also use the it to cause multiple conditions to lead
to the same processing.
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