What is the use of EVALUATE statement?

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What is the use of EVALUATE statement?..

Answer / ravikumar

Evaluate statement is used to avoid nested if statments in
the program.

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What is the use of EVALUATE statement?..

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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What is the use of EVALUATE statement?..

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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What is the use of EVALUATE statement?..

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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