Wait for Expression

Pauses the execution of macro until a specific expression to be evaluated to TRUE. It's useful for performing a complex condition waiting. Commonly used to detect for the return value of a user-defined function which is predefined steps to routine that accept parameters, perform an action, such as a complex calculation, and return the result of that action as a value.

Parameters

• Expression Specifies the expression to be waited.

Notes:

For time-out options, please refer to "Time out".

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