[ic] Re: creating a temporary page variable

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> Quoting Jeff Dafoe (suppressed):
> > >  [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. 

Bye
    Racke 

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