RE: Sharing variables between procedures

Because all file fields are global.  Your data structure is
local to the procedure hence those are local fields which hide
the global fields from the file.

Scott Mildenberger

--- "Fisher, Don" <Dfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think I'm confused.  I defined a data structure DS1 based on
> a file called
> FILE1 and created a pointer PTR1 initialized to the address of
> DS1 in a
> procedure.  This procedure calls another procedure using PTR1
> as the
> parameter.  This second procedure also has a data structure
> DS1 that is
> defined using FILE1 and BASED on the passed pointer.  No
> PREFIX is used on
> either data structure.  No when the second procedure reads the
> file used to
> define DS1, the fields in DS1 are not updated.  They're the
> same as the
> fields in the file so what happened?
> 
> I have attempted passing PTR1 by VALUE and by reference to no
> avail.  No
> luck either in making the BASED pointer a separate field from
> the passed
> pointer or in creating a separate data structure.
> 



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