V6021. The value is assigned to the 'x' variable but is not used.

This diagnostic rule detects only cases when incorrect value is assigned to a variable which is reassigned with a new value or is not used at all.

Case 1.

One and the same variable is assigned a value twice. In addition, the variable itself is not used between these assignments.

Consider this example:

A = GetA();
A = GetB();

The 'A' variable being assigned values twice might indicate a bug. The code should have most probably looked like this:

A = GetA();
B = GetB();

Cases when the variable is used between the assignments are treated as correct and do not trigger the warning:

A = 1;
A = Foo(A);

Case 2.

Local variable is assigned a value, but the variable is not used further anywhere until the exit of the method.

Consider the following example:

String GetDisplayName(Titles titles, String name)
{
  String result = null;
  String tmp = normalize(name);
  if (titles.isValidName(name, tmp)){
    result = name;
  }
  return name;
}

The programmer wanted the method to return the 'result' variable, which gets initialized depending on how 'isValidName' executes, but made a typo that causes the method to return the variable 'name' all the time. The fixed code should look like this:

String GetDisplayName(Titles titles, String name)
{
  String result = null;
  String tmp = normalize(name);
  if (titles.isValidName(name, tmp)){
    result = name;
  }
  return result;
}

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