Need explanation about inline assignment.

[jacQues]

Someone explain to me what inline assignments are allowed and what are not allowed?

These two examples DO NOT work the same. The first one works as expected half the time and the second one never triggers a MsgBox().

CONST $dll = @ScriptDir&"\Au3zip.dll"

LOCAL $plh[3]

IF FileExists($dll) AND ($plh[1] = PluginOpen($dll))=0 THEN

MsgBox(0,"test","Plugin good...")

PluginClose($plh[1])

ENDIF

LOCAL $plh

IF FileExists($dll) AND ($plh = PluginOpen($dll))=0 THEN

MsgBox(0,"test","Plugin good...")

PluginClose($plh)

ENDIF

Edited February 23, 2008 by jacQues

[MHz]

I cannot understand how your conditions are ok when PluginOpen returns a handle, else returns 0 (as undocumented). I could be wrong but I do not consider that you will see the msgbox upon success.

Edit:

removed 2 words which created a bad sentence.

Edited February 23, 2008 by MHz

[jacQues]

I cannot understand how your conditions are ok when PluginOpen returns a handle, else returns 0 (as undocumented). I could be wrong but I do not consider that you will see the msgbox upon success.

ZipPlugin documentation states to check for <>0 and =0 is the opposite. But that isn't my question, its just a random example.

Another example:

IF ($pos = StringInStr("1234567890",$str)) THEN

MsgBox(0,"found","Position: "&$pos)

ENDIF

Above example doesn't work. But some other inline assignments *do* work. My question is what rules apply for inline assignments in AutoIt.

[Siao]

The rule is that there's no such thing as inline assignment.

In all your examples above, no assignment takes place, just case insensitive compare.

For example,

Global $x = 0
ConsoleWrite(($x = 0) & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite(($x = 13) & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite($x & @CRLF)

produces output

True
False
0

[MHz]

The rule is that there's no such thing as inline assignment.

I agree.

Also, how can a return value from a function be used as a condition as a so called inline assignment?

Global $value

If $value = _test() Then
    ConsoleWrite('success' & @CRLF)
EndIf

Func _test()
    Return 1
EndFunc

That does not work as you need to declare $value first and how can you evaluate $value to the return of _Test() before the return value is known?