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movax Full Member Offline Posts: 172 Colorado	Local Variable lifespan Sep 25th, 2006, 10:05pm   Does a local variable get killed after the funtion returns?  I assume so since I cant make it static.  Sorry if this is in the docs I didnt see it.
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JohnG Ex Member	Re: Local Variable lifespan Reply #1 - Sep 26th, 2006, 12:08am   Local variables cease to be, when they go out of scope. So if you create it at the start of a function then it ceases to exist at the end of the function. If you create it inside a for loop, it only exists within the for loop.

movax Full Member Offline Posts: 172 Colorado	Re: Local Variable lifespan Reply #2 - Sep 26th, 2006, 12:29am   nice,  I was beginning to wonder about recreating vars in functions called thousands of times per second. thanks JohnG!
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