Attention

IronPLC supports IEC 61131-3 Structured Text excluding I/O mapping.

Assignment

The assignment statement stores the value of an expression in a variable.

IEC 61131-3

Section 3.3.2.1

Support

Supported

Syntax

variable := expression ;

The left-hand side must be a variable that is writable (not declared as CONSTANT). The right-hand side is any expression whose type is compatible with the variable.

Description

The := operator evaluates the expression on the right and assigns the result to the variable on the left. The statement is terminated with a semicolon.

Example

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