[ic] Re: creating a temporary page variable

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Quoting Stefan Hornburg (Racke) (racke@linuxia.de):
> mike@perusion.com writes: 
> 
> > Quoting Jeff Dafoe (jeff@badtz-maru.com):
> >> >  [tmp some_scratch] something [/tmp]
> >> >
> >> > it goes away after the current page. 
> >> 
> >>     I think the tag reference is wrong.  It says for tmp: 
> >> 
> >> "Sets a scratch variable to value, but at the end of the user session the
> >> Scratch key is deleted"
> > 
> > That is actually correct. I don't know where your confusion lies... 
> > 
> >> 
> >>     That is what confused me.  I went ahead and made a note in the online
> >> reference to reflect the information you provided.  Thanks for the
> >> additional information, as I was also wondering about the lifetime of
> >> variables used in embedded perl. 
> >> 
> > 
> > All variables in IC, except for ones stored in the user session,
> > last only for that page. Even if you set $Config, which you actually
> > see quite frequently, it will return to the catalog.cfg value on
> > the next access.
> 
> The grand exception is $Variable, where changes are persistent even
> across sessions, so if you change a variable for one customer, the
> next will get the changed value in another session. 

Only if you change the file or data object underlying it, and that
is presuming you have "Pragma dynamic_variables" set.

Just assigning to $Variable in embedded Perl will do nothing....

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