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On 2013/2/4 3:30 PM, RPGLIST wrote:
It does Scott, however it does reaise the question though when passing
the
parm (file) is it actually passing it or just a pointer to the data? IE:
If I pass a large file, how much of a load is it going to put on the
system?
Then On 2013/2/4 4:28 PM, Anderson, Kurt wrote:
"A file is always passed by reference."
Just to clarify Kurt's response, the "file" here is RPG's internal
information about the file. The _data_ in the file is not passed at all,
not even by reference.
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