That depends on a lot of things you're not telling us. What type is searchValue?

Regardless if this code is C#, the second = expression is pointless because it's simply assigning the first value assigned a second time to the same variable. Valid, but pointless and the compiler probably optimizes that away completely.

+++ Rick ---

>Hi,
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>In one of the methods I see the following code
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>searchValue = searchValue = pi.GetValue(searchCriteriaViewModel);

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>What does this double = mean here? Is it a typo or has some meaning?
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>Thanks in advance.