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  <func>
    <title>eval</title>
    <category>Script</category>
    <version>5.1 OC</version>
    <syntax>
      <rtype>any</rtype>
      <params>
        <param>
          <type>string</type>
          <name>script</name>
          <desc>Script to be executed</desc>
        </param>
        <param>
          <type>bool</type>
          <name>dont_pass_errors</name>
          <desc>If true and the script causes an error, the function returns nil and does not cancel its parent script execution.</desc>
        </param>
      </params>
    </syntax>
    <desc>Executes a string as script.</desc>
    <examples>
      <example>
        <code>var v1, v2, v3, v4, v5;
for(var i = 1; i &lt;= 5; i++) eval( <funclink>Format</funclink>(&quot;v%d = %d&quot;, i, i * i) );</code>
        <text>Sets the variables v1 to v5 with the squared values of 1 to 5. (The script snippets "v1 = 1", "v2 = 4" ... "v5 = 25" are created with <funclink>Format</funclink> and executed with "eval".)</text>
      </example>
    </examples>
  </func>
  <author>PeterW</author><date>2002-04</date>
</funcs>
