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Re: Deallocate Memory for a Structure [message #45805 is a reply to message #45804]

Sat, 15 October 2005 00:15

Andrew Cool
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Registered: January 1996

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Robert Moss wrote:
> Reimar Bauer wrote:
>>
>> a=create_Struct('test',1)
>> a=0
>>
>> or
>>
>> dummy=temporary(a)
>>
>
> dummy = temporary( a ) does not free any memory. It simply renames the
> variable that contains the structure. Setting a to zero certainly does
> work.
>
>
> --
> Robert Moss, PhD

But, if you place dummy=temporary(a) in a procedure, it does free up
memory - see DF's tip at
http://www.dfanning.com/tips/variable_undefine.html

Andrew

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		Re: Deallocate Memory for a Structure By: Armando Riccardi on Sat, 15 October 2005 04:07
		Re: Deallocate Memory for a Structure By: Andrew Cool on Sat, 15 October 2005 00:15
		Re: Deallocate Memory for a Structure By: Robert Moss on Fri, 14 October 2005 21:46
		Re: Deallocate Memory for a Structure By: peter.albert@gmx.de on Fri, 14 October 2005 00:34
		Re: Deallocate Memory for a Structure By: R.Bauer on Fri, 14 October 2005 00:06

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