Re: Sharing a variable through my project in BC++ 5.02

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From: Jimmy Shoe
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 00:00

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Trenton D. Adams wrote in message ...
>My question now is this.  How the heck do I make a variable that will
>keep it's value through my whole program?  I thought this would be very
>simple to figure out but nothing seems to work.

It is easy.  Just make the variable global.  Declare it outside of a
function.  If you want to use it in another file declare it again, but use
the word "extern" in front of it.

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Subject: Re: Sharing a variable through my project in BC++ 5.02
Date: 1998/02/02
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