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Implicit Assignment: Using Other NCL Verbs

While &ASSIGN is a verb designed specifically to allow multiple assignment operations, many other NCL verbs also cause assignment of a new value to one or more target variables as the result of their execution. Examples of these NCL verbs are &PARSE and &SETVARS. A complete description of these verbs and how to use them can be found in the Network Control Language Reference Guide.

Verbs whose action results in retrieving information from an external source (for example, &FILE, &PAUSE) place the data they receive into specified target variables. An implicit assignment of values takes place as a result of the execution of this type of verb.