RE: Sharing variables between procedures

[Scott Mildenberger <scottmildenberger@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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