Varkon MBS Programmers manual

rval - Function

Description

Converts a string of characters to a reference.

  id:=rval(s);

  ref    id;
  string s;

s	- The string to convert.

None.

The corresponding REF value. If the contents of s is not possible to convert Varkon will stop execution and issue an error message.

  id:=rval("#5.2#7");    ! Returns id = #5.2#7