expression Return the result of evaluating a nonconditional expression

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expression

The "official" features are described in the proc manual. This document contains only undocumented features

Name	expression Return the result of evaluating a nonconditional expression.
Synopsis	expression(Expression[,list])
Use	Allowed in form, service, and report components.
Description	You can use a second (and optional) parameter a associative list (id=value) that expression should use to evaluate the expression as variables and values. Tested in 7.2.03
Example	amount = 1000 taxes = "VAT=6;SPECIAL=4" ; Note that taxes is a string (variable or field) and ; VAT and SPECIAL are id of two items exp1 = "amount + (amount * VAT /100 )" ;exp1 and exp2 are string with the "formula" v1 = expression ( exp1, taxes ) ; v1 is 1060 exp2 = "amount + (amount * VAT /100 ) + (amount * SPECIAL / 100)" ; v2 = expression ( exp2, taxes ) ; v2 is 1100