[ic] creating a temporary page variable

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Quoting Jeff Dafoe (jeff@badtz-maru.com):
> >  [tmp some_scratch] something [/tmp]
> >
> > it goes away after the current page.
> 
>     I think the tag reference is wrong.  It says for tmp:
> 
> "Sets a scratch variable to value, but at the end of the user session the
> Scratch key is deleted"

That is actually correct. I don't know where your confusion lies...

> 
>     That is what confused me.  I went ahead and made a note in the online
> reference to reflect the information you provided.  Thanks for the
> additional information, as I was also wondering about the lifetime of
> variables used in embedded perl.
> 

All variables in IC, except for ones stored in the user session,
last only for that page. Even if you set $Config, which you actually
see quite frequently, it will return to the catalog.cfg value on
the next access.

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