Update a global variable?

[Tim Jipson]

I’m running 6.2 on AIX. I can create and call a global variable from inside an xlate but I can’t change the value. I’ve tried the gv commands and the normal tcl set but the value never updates. Is there a trick to this?

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[Dirk Engels]

Tim,

have you execute the gvsave command after setting the new value? Otherwise you only update the variable in memory, but do not write it back into the file. I’m using the following

gvsetvar LASTSCANDATE $scandate; gvsave

and my global variable LASTSCANDATE will be updated in the file.

[Tim Jipson]

I was missing the gvsave, I did not know that was needed after a gvsetvar. Thank you!

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