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<p class="warning">Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. There is no OO equivalent for the $ListDel function, but stringlists can be emptied of content with the [[Empty (Stringlist subroutine)]].</p>
<p class="warning">Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. There is no OO equivalent for the $ListDel function, but stringlists can be emptied of content with the [[Empty (Stringlist subroutine)]].</p>


This function releases CCATEMP storage containing $list items, which helps reduce CCATEMP usage and possibly reduce disk I/O. The information contained in the $list is lost after a $ListDel.  
This function releases CCATEMP storage containing $list items, which helps reduce CCATEMP usage and possibly reduce disk I/O. The information contained in the $list is lost after a <var>$ListDel</var>.  


Note that while it is not strictly necessary to <var>$ListDel</var> any $list since they are cleaned up at the termination of the current procedure, the processing for <var>$ListDel</var> is considerably more efficient than end of evaluation cleanup and can actually reduce CCATEMP I/O.  
Note that while it is not strictly necessary to <var>$ListDel</var> any $list since they are cleaned up at the termination of the current procedure, the processing for <var>$ListDel</var> is considerably more efficient than end of evaluation cleanup and can actually reduce CCATEMP I/O.  

Revision as of 21:17, 19 October 2012

Release CCATEMP storage used for $list

Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. There is no OO equivalent for the $ListDel function, but stringlists can be emptied of content with the Empty (Stringlist subroutine).

This function releases CCATEMP storage containing $list items, which helps reduce CCATEMP usage and possibly reduce disk I/O. The information contained in the $list is lost after a $ListDel.

Note that while it is not strictly necessary to $ListDel any $list since they are cleaned up at the termination of the current procedure, the processing for $ListDel is considerably more efficient than end of evaluation cleanup and can actually reduce CCATEMP I/O.

The $ListDel function accepts one argument and returns a numeric result. It is a callable $function (see Calling Sirius Mods $functions).

The only argument is the identifier of the $list that is to be deleted.

Syntax

<section begin="syntax" /> [%RESULT =] $ListDel(list_identifier) <section end="syntax" />

$ListDel Function

%RESULT is zero, or it is a negative error code if an error has occurred.

-5 - Required argument not specified -6 - $List identifier invalid

$ListDel Error Codes

Products authorizing $ListDel