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# Statements

Each line of code entered into a **Script** is considered to be a **Statement**.

And each statement is terminated with a semi-colon ; (dot above a comma) as this indicates to the script engine that it is the end of a **Statement**.

A semi-colon is also used in Delphi and C# languages to terminate a **Statement**.

Multiple **Statements** can be grouped into blocks using **Begin….End**.

Typical **Statements** such as the **If...Then** statement will check for a particular specified condition, and based on the result, run one **Statement** if true or another if false. If you want to run multiple **Statements** if the result is true, you need to group then using a **Begin...End** block.

**Try...Except** can be used in place of **Begin...End** to also provide grouping, however **Try...Except** supports error handling.

The **Script** itself is contained within a **Begin...End** block.

For additional information, please refer to [Scripting Reference](/statelake/scripting-reference/).

The following is an example of a simple one line assignment statement that assigns the value of 10 to the variable called **MyVariable**.

```pascal
MyVariable := 10;
```

Another example of a simple statement is the calling of a function, as illustrated below. This statement calls the **LogInfo** function and passes a single parameter being the text 'This is the text I want to log'.

```text
LogInfo('This is the text I want to log');
```