Assignment Statements

$ vbl = F$lexical_function( params )

Examples:

$ FSP = F$SEARCH(“*.TXT”)

$ DFLT = F$ENVIRONMENT (“DEFAULT”)
$ NODE = F$GETSYI(“NODENAME”)

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Here we see a variable which receives the value returned by a built-in (“lexical”) function. The built-in function is part of the DCL lexicon.

The slide also shows some examples.