initialize an static, local, script-wide variable to empty
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Tue Jul 15 16:20:00 EDT 2003
erik hansen wrote:
> --- Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
> wrote:
>> erik hansen wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> --- Richard Gaskin
>> <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> is there a way to set sHolder to
>>>>> empty between each use?
>
>> No, you would need a handler to trigger it.
>> Otherwise, Rev wuldn't know
>> when you want it cleared.
>
> i wanted a static-global like sHolder to empty
> itself between uses just to reduce the clutter.
>
> local tHolder
> in each handler does the job, of course.
>
> in the script (ouside any handler) you can write
> local sHolder = 0 and this will put 0 into
> sHolder but i haven't found out whether sHolder
> resets to 0 after each use.
Scipr-local (or "static") vars retain their values during the current
session. The exception is that editing a script will reset the value of
such vars defined in it.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
Developer of WebMerge 2.2: Publish any database on any site
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