Declaration and Assignment

JavaScript is a weakly-typed language. This means that variables are not assigned a type when they are declared. A variable can be assigned any value, and its type is determined by the value currently assigned. Consequently, a local variable does not need to be declared before it is used.

var variable_name = "Hello"; // -- recommended

message1 = "Hello"; // -- without “var” also works

var count = 100;

If a variable is used as a report-level variable, it must be declared using the 'var' keyword.

// Place declaration in the onLoad handler:

var pageTotal = 0;

After the variable is declared, it can be used everywhere as a shared report instance variable.

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