What is a Statement?

A statement is a command that signals VTS to perform an action in an application, such as drawing graphics, doing mathematical functions, communicating, raising an alarm, logging data or trending. A simple statement might look like:

A = 5;

This statement sets the value of the variable "A" to "5".

Other statements have the form:

Beep(1000);

This statement passes the "Beep" function a parameter value of 1000, thereby generating a 1000 Hz tone in the internal speaker of the computer.

Statements always end with a semi-colon.  They need not be written on a single line.  For example, the following are two perfectly valid statements:

A = {setting the value of "A" … }

 5;  { … to five. }

 

 

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