[ic] creating a temporary page variable

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Dan Browning)]

At 09:21 PM 8/29/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>     This is one of those "it sounds dumb to me" questions but I have
>reviewed the docs a trillion times on this and haven't come up with an
>answer.  From what I understand, set and tmp both create variables in the
>session record.

[tmp] variables will lose their value at the end of the page delivery.

>Is there any way to create and access a temporary variable
>that is scoped to just the single template iteration that never gets saved
>in the session?

You didn't mention Perl, but for the sake of completion:

push(@Vend::TmpScratch,qw/name_of_tmp_variable/);
$Scratch->{name_of_tmp_variable} = '';

-or-

$Tag->tmp(...);

Cheers,

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